KOHN:
I didn't hope.
I just automatically assumed that they
would be productive if I worked hard.
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And they were.
Osag@e thing about science is science moves on.
is working hopes his work will be great.
for the moment,
But the
So each chap who
While it may be great
Hye Like a brick»layer building a wall.
lay your bricks, then you drop out.
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my
Another fella comes and lays
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some bricks on top of Mitandsnemeagecs.
Unless you make some
really-emmeeey important discovery, most scientific work is #@S8t,
ets just part of the bricks and mortar that go into the general
structure,
if I make myself clear.
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While #hi¢ was okay,
I don't
think any of it deserves the Nobel bri zOpasexeeteriy-
BERGE:
Can you talk a little bit about what conditions were
like to work under during those years?
KOHN:
Conditions in the early fifties were very good.
There
was money, and if you workedany reasonably honest, good job, ehpay
could get support.
That probably isn't true today.
I have no
complaints whatsoever, I feel I was quite well treated by the
Atomic Energy Commission.
BERGE:
Did you mostly follow your own research,
or were you
able to choose your topics of research and then proceed or did you
follow the program that the AEC had intended?
KOHN:
I had complete authority.