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Health Physicist William J. Bair, Ph.D.

Biochemist Waldo E. Cohn, Ph.D.

Dr. Patricia Wallace Durbin, Ph.D.

Merril Eisenbud

Dr. Nadine Foreman, M.D.

Radiologist Hymer L. Friedell, M.D., Ph.D.

Health Physicist Carl C. Gamertsfelder, Ph.D.

Dr. John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D.

Radiation Biologist Marvin Goldman, Ph.D.

Julie Langham Grilly

John W. Healy

Hematologist Karl F. Hubner, M.D.

Oral History of Radiologist Henry I. Kohn, M.D., Ph.D.

Medical Physicist Katherine L. Lathrop and Physician Paul V. Harper

Pathologist Clarence Lushbaugh, M.D.

Health Physicist Constantine J. Maletskos, Ph.D.

Radiologist Earl R. Miller, M.D.

Health Physicist Karl Z. Morgan, Ph.D.

Biochemist William D. Moss

Physiologist Nello Pace, Ph.D.

Cell Biologist Don Francis Petersen, Ph.D.

Radiobiologist Chet Richmond, Ph.D.

Physician James S. Robertson, M.D., Ph.D.

Biophysicist Robert E. Rowland, Ph.D.

Biophysicist Cornelius A. Tobias, Ph.D.

Biochemist John Randolph Totter, Ph.D.

Oncologist Helen Vodopick, M.D.

Dr. George Voelz, M.D.

Donner Lab Administrator Baird G. Whaley

DOE/EH-0466

HUMAN RADIATION STUDIES:
REMEMBERING THE EARLY YEARS

Oral History of Radiologist Hymer L. Friedell, M.D., Ph.D.

Conducted January 28, 1995

United States Department of Energy
Office of Human Radiation Experiments
July 1995


CONTENTS

Foreword
Short Biography
Early Training and Research
Pre-War Radiation Therapy
Pre-War Experience at the University of California
Amount of Information Provided to Patients
Prominent Researchers Working at Berkeley
The Army Medical Corps and the Manhattan Project
Work at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory
Inspection of Manhattan Project Facilities and Proposed Sites
Search for Data on Human Exposure to Radiation
Purchase of a Cyclotron; the Manhattan Engineer District's Early Biomedical Program
Plutonium Injection Studies
Patient Consent in the Plutonium Injections
Advisory Role in the Early AEC Biomedical Program
AEC Isotope Distribution Committee