Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904-
Oral history interview with John Hundale Lawrence, 1979 and 1980.
In this interview, John Hundale Lawrence discusses: 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.
Medical physicist (radiation biophysics). Professional experience includes: director of Donner Laboratory (1948-1970), professor, medical physics, University of California, Berkeley (1950-1970); physician-in-chief, Donner Pavillion (1954-1970); associate director, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (1959-1970); regent, University of California (1970-1983).
Anger, Hal O. (Hal Oscar), 1920-2005.
Born, James L., 1915-1981
Calvin, Melvin, 1911-1997
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
Gofman, John W.
Jones, Hardin B.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Lawrence, John Hundale, 1904-
Northrop, John Howard, 1891-1987
Tobias, Cornelius A.
Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory.
Donner Laboratory.
Harvard University.
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
Markle Foundation.
University of California, Berkeley. Division of Medical Physics and Biophysics
University of South Dakota
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Cyclotrons.
Medical physics -- Research.
Nuclear medicine.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.
Medical Physics oral history series.
History of science and technology collection.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, Berkeley. The Bancroft Library. Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA