Nuclear medicine pioneer and director of Donner Laboratory, Univeristy of California, Berkeley
By: 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,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Donner Laboratory.; University of California, Berkeley. Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics.; Nuclear medicine -- United States -- Research.; Nuclear medicine -- Equipment and supplies.; Medical physics -- United States -- Research.; Nuclear medicine physicians -- California -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Medical physics series (Bancroft Library)
Description: 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.