Nuclear medicine pioneer and director of Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley :
oral history transcript /
John H. Lawrence ; an interview conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1979 and 1980. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
2000.

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Main Author
Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904-
Related Names
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Language(s)
English
Subjects
University of California, Berkeley. > Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics.
Donner Laboratory.
Nuclear medicine physicians > California > Interviews.
Medical physics > United States > Research.
Nuclear medicine > Equipment and supplies.
Nuclear medicine > United States > Research.
Oral histories.
Summary
Norwegian/Midwestern family background; brother, E.O. Lawrence; undergraduate education at the University of South Dakota, medical training at Harvard; research with Harvey Cushing; nuclear medicine at UC Berkeley, Crocker Laboratory; financing research, the Macy Foundation and the Markle Foundation; tools of nuclear medicine, cyclotron, omnitron, bevelac, artificial radioisotopes, neutron radiation, radiophosphorous; treating acromegaly, Cushing's disease, Nelson's syndrome, lymph cancer; creation and purpose of Donner Laboratory and UC Berkeley's Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics; Atomic Energy Commission, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; work relationships with James Born, Hardin Jones, John Gofman, Melvin Calvin, Hal Anger, John Northrop, Cornelius Tobias; founding the Alpha Omega Foundation.
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Forms part of the Medical physics oral history series.
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1 v. (v, 165 p.) : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
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