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Oral History Interview with Baird G. Whaley, August 15, 1994

Description: Baird G. Whaley, Donner Lab Administrator, was interviewed by representatives of US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments (OHRE). The purpose of the interview was to capture the remembrances of Mr. Whaley concerning what he could relate on activities at the Donner Lab that pertain to the OHRE responsibilities. Following a brief biographical sketch, Mr. Whaley relates his experiences in administration at the LAB including funding activities, staffing concerns, intralaboraory politics, and re… more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Whaley, Baird G. & Berge, Anna
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Oral History Interview with Clarence Lushbaugh, October 5, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dr. Clarance Lushbaugh by representatives of the DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Lushbaugh was chosen for this interview because of his research involving experimental use of irradiation with human beings at Los Alamos and at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Science (ORINS). After a brief biographical sketch Dr. Lushbaugh and his assistant Mrs. Ann Swipe defend their use of total body irradiation using the LETBI (Low Exposure Total Body Irradiati… more
Date: April 1995
Creator: Lushbaugh, Clarence; Anders, Roger & Fisher, Darrell
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Oral History Interview with Constantine J. Maletskos, January 20, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dr. Constantine J. Maletskos by representatives of the DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Maletskos was selected for this interview because of his research at the Radioactivity Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), at the Harvard Medical School, and at the New England Deaconess Hospital. After a brief biographical sketches Dr. Maletskos discusses at length about his work at the Center on research that used subjects from the Walter… more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Maletskos, Constantine J.; Fisher, Darrell & Gourley, Karoline
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Oral History Interview with Cornelius A. Tobias, January 16, 1995

Description: Dr. Cornelius A. Tobias was interviewed by representatives of US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments (OHRE). He was chosen for this interview because of his extensive biophysics and medical physics research activities while he was employed by the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco and at the Donner Laboratory. He discusses his involvement in wartime studies of effects of high altitude on aviators, carbon monoxide with radioactive tracers, blood studies with radioactive i… more
Date: July 1995
Creator: Tobias, Cornelius A.; Pillai, Prita & Berge, Anna
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Oral History Interview with Don Francis Petersen, November 29, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview of Dr. Don Francis Petersen by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Petersen was selected for this interview because of his long research career at Los Alamos and his knowledge of the Atomic Energy Commission`s biomedical program. Dr. Petersen did not personally conduct research on human subjects. After a brief biographical sketch Dr. Petersen discusses his remembrances of the early use of radionuclides as biological tracers, aspect… more
Date: August 1995
Creator: Petersen, Don Francis; Caputo, Marisa & Fisher, Darrell
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Oral History Interview with Helen Vodopik, December 28, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview with Dr. Helen Vodopick by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Vodopick was chosen for this interview because of her involvement with the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) experimental cancer-therapy program involving total-body irradiation. After a short biographical sketch Dr. Vodopick relates her remembrances of the Medium-Exposure-Rate Total Body Irradiator (METBI), ORIN… more
Date: August 1995
Creator: Vodopick, Helen; Caputo, Marisa & Harrell, David
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Oral History Interview with Henry I. Kohn, September 13, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview of Dr. Henry I. Kohn by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Kohn was selected for this interview because of the positions he held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of California at San Francisco, and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kohn discussed his remembrances of his experiences in blood chemistry of animals and patients exposed to radiation, and his remembrances of several radiobiologists.
Date: June 1995
Creator: Kohn, Henry Irving & Berge, Anna
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Oral History Interview with Hymer L. Friedell, January 28, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview with Hymer L. Friedell by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Friedell was selected for this interview because of his participation in the early stages of the medical use of radioisotopes, his important role in the Manhattan Engineer District Medical Division, and his distinguished medical career and his involvement in the distribution of isotopes and the approval for their use in humans. After a brief biographical sketch Dr. Fried… more
Date: July 1995
Creator: Friedell, Hymer Louis; Fisher, Darrell & Melamed, Elly
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Oral History Interview with James S. Robertson, January 20, 1995

Description: Transcript of in interview of Dr. James S. Robertson by representatives of the DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Robertson was chosen for this interview because of his research at Brookhaven National Laboratory, especially on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT); his work at the United States Naval Defense Laboratory; and his work at the Atomic Energy Commission. After a brief biographical sketch Dr. Robertson discusses research on human subjects at Berkeley, his contributions to t… more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Robertson, James S.; Yuffee, Michael & Pillai, Prita
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Oral History Interview with John Randolph Totter, January 23, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview of Dr. John Randolph Totter by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Tottler was selected for this interview because of his career with the Atomic Energy Commission Division of Biology and Medicine (DBM), particularly as its director from 1967 to 1972. After a short biographical sketch Dr. Totter discusses his remembrances on a wide range topics including nucleic acid and leukemia research at Oak Ridge, AEC biochemistry training in S… more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Totter, John Randolph; Fisher, Darrell & Harrell, David
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Oral History Interview with Karl F. Hubner, December 30, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview of Dr. Karl F. Hubner by representatives of the US DOE Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Hubner was selected for this interview because of his participation in the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies(ORINS)/Oak Ridge Associated Universities(ORAU) Medical Division cancer therapy research program involving total body irradiation. After a short biographical sketch Dr. Hubner discusses his research in Bone Marrow Transplants, his participation in the development of Nucl… more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Hubner, Karl F.; Caputo, Marisa & Harrell, David
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Oral History interview with Karl Z. Morgan, January 7, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview of Dr. Karl. Z. Morgan by representatives of the DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Morgan was selected for this interview because of his research for the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago and his work at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The oral history covers Dr. Morgan`s work as a pioneer in the field of Health Physics, his research at ORNL and his work since he retired from ORNL.
Date: June 1995
Creator: Morgan, Karl Z.; Yuffee, Michael & Caputo, Marisa
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Oral History Interview with Katherine L. Lathrop and Paul V. Harper, January 26, 1995

Description: Transcript of an interview with Ms. Katherine L. Lathrop and Dr. Paul V. Harper by representatives of the DOE Office of Human Radiation Research. Ms. Lathrop and Dr. Harper were chosen for this interview because of their long-standing interest and research experience in the development of nuclear medicine. After brief biographical sketches the researchers provide a broad and interesting description of their roles in the initial uses of many radiopharmaceuticals, their experiences in human exper… more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Lathrop, Katherine L.; Harper, Paul V.; Fisher, Darrell & Yuffee, Michael
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Oral History Interview with Marvin Goldman, December 22, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview of Dr. Marvin Goldman by representatives of DOE`s Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Goldman was chosen for this interview because of his work on bone-seeking radionuclides. After a brief biographical sketch Dr. Goldman related his experiences concerning his training and work at Rochester University, his work at Brookhaven National Laboratory, his participation in the Beagle Studies at University of California at Davis, his work with the Chernobyl Nuclear Plan… more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Goldman, Marvin; Hefner, Loretta & Gourley, Karoline
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Oral History Interview with Nadine Foreman, August 19, 1994

Description: Dr. Nadine Foreman was interviewed by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments (OHRE). Dr. Foreman was selected for interview because of the position she held at the University of California, San Francisco. Following a brief biographical sketch, Dr. Foreman describes her work with Dr. Mayo Soley using I-131 in treatment of hyperthyroidism, selection criteria for patients in the radioiodine project, work with Dr. Earl Miller, work at Highland Hospital, radioiodine trea… more
Date: July 1995
Creator: Foreman, Nadine & Berge, Anna
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Oral History Interview with Nello Pace, August 16, 1994

Description: Dr. Nello Pace was interviewed by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments (OHRE). Dr. Pace was selected fro the interview because of the positions he held with the US Navy, at the University of California, Berkeley, and as Director of the White Mountain Research Station near Bishop, California. Following a brief biographical sketch, Dr. Pace related his remembrances concerning tritium injections experiments in animals and humans during World War II, the development o… more
Date: June 1995
Creator: Pace, Nello & Berge, Anna
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Oral History Interview with William D. Moss, November 30, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview with William D. Moss by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Mr. Moss was selected for this interview because of his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory concerning analytical methods in the chemical determination of plutonium in biological materials. After a brief biographical sketch, Mr. Moss relates his understanding of how occupational exposure limits were determined for the Manhattan Project, how data from those workers who were … more
Date: September 1995
Creator: Moss, WIlliam D.; Caputo, Marisa & Fisher, Darrell
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Oral History Interview with William J. Bair, October 14, 1994

Description: Transcript of an interview of William J. Bair by representatives of the US DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments. Dr. Blair was selected for this interview because of of his participation in the University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project and for his radiological inhalation research at Hanford Site. After a brief biographical sketch Dr. Blair discusses his remembrances on a wide rage of topics. Discussions include his graduate studies at Rochester University, use of human subjects at Roch… more
Date: June 1995
Creator: Bair, William J.; Harrell, David & Shindledecker, Cindy
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