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Kenneth G. Scott
Transcription of Tapes, Tape 2
Date of Interview:
17 December 1979
you think there was any tendency, as time went
SSH:
on, for him to go less and less often into the Labs-dnd
become more and more concerned with administrative duties?
KGS:
Well, I saw so little of him in those years that I don't
know what he did with his time.
He also was pretty heavily
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SSH;
How did Cook express his personality?
KGS:
Well, he controlled the whole thing for many years.
Both
budgetariiy6viay’and researchyise.
SSH;
He had the money?
KGS:
Wellhe had control of the grant.
The medical physics
group, which was mostly physicists from the Berkeley campus};~
and sone other people like
Cook, controlled medical physics
in the University of California for quite a few years.
Is this in the poatCyar years that you're talking about?
KGS;
Well, this is mostly during the war.
So they had the ‘grants ‘and consequently could call the
shots, ie that what you're saying?
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