Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) 
 
   SERIES TITLE     Joseph G. Hamilton Records 
 
  INCLUSIVE DATES   1943 1975  
 
  ARRANGEMENT  Varies 
 
  VOLUME  12 microfilm reels 
 
  DESCRIPTION  These records have been copied from various 
               collections to form an artificial collection of 
               records pertaining to Hamilton. Many of these 
               records were created by Hamilton and transferred 
               to the LBL Archives and Records Office in 1957. 
               Patricia Durbin  used the files for her follow-up 
               study of the 1945 1947 plutonium injections. 
               Attached  to each reel are file folder listings, a 
               biographical sketch of Joseph G. Hamilton, and  a 
               scope and content note. Some notable projects 
               represented here include Dugway  bomb tests, and 
               Project Sunshine, a study of the effects of 
               strontium-90. Other records from the 1950s seem to 
               be more directly related to Durbin's research or 
               to the  research of other, newer members of the 
               research group. They document Durbin's  early work 
               with radioactive materials in animals and in some 
               cases with humans.  Human studies include a study 
               of astatine in patients with goiter or adenoma and 
               a  study of milk and baby food (tracing natural 
               levels of strontium and other elements).  Durbin's 
               follow-up studies of people injected with 
               plutonium or americium in the 1940s  include some 
               correspondence, notes, and data. A finding aid 
               with reel and microfilm  frame numbers is 
               available.  
 
  LOCATION OF  RECORDS 
               Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory  
               Archives and Records Office 
               Berkeley, CA 94720 
 
               Federal Records Center 
               1000 Commodore Drive 
               San Bruno, CA 94066