Physician and administrator at Donner Laboratory
By: James L. Born, M.D. ; an interview conducted by Sally Smith Hughes,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.; Bancroft Library. History of Science and Technology Program.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Subjects: Born, James L., 1915-1981,; Donald, William Goodricke, 1889-1957.; Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904-; Donner Laboratory.; Medical scientists -- California -- Interviews.; Nuclear medicine -- United States -- Research.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Topics covered include: family life in Wisconsin and Illinois; law school education, graduated 1940, University of Wisconsin; served as Wisconsin's assistant Attorney General 1942-1944; changes career to medicine, medical school at University of Wisconsin; marriage to Jean Louise Chapman and move to California; directorship of Donner Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley; medical program at UC Berkeley; early experimental work in radioactive medicine at the Donner laboratory, radioactive techniques developed for specific diseases; omnitron, bevelac, other tools; collaborations, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, recollections of William Goodricke Donald and John H. Lawrence.