Radionuclide research at Crocker Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory : oral history transcript / Patricia C. Wallace Durbin-Heavey ; an interview conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1979 and 1980. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2002

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Durbin, Patricia Wallace. Radionuclide research at Crocker Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory : oral history transcript / Patricia C. Wallace Durbin-Heavey ; an interview conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1979 and 1980. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2002.

Radionuclide research at Crocker Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory : oral history transcript / Patricia C. Wallace Durbin-Heavey ; an interview conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1979 and 1980. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2002.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37307876

Childhood in northern California; B.S. in chemistry, UC Berkeley, 1948; lab assistant at Crocker Radiation Laboratory, WWII/Cold War research on fission products; human and animal radionuclide experiments (plutonium, strontium, astatine, and others), cyclotron operations, including radioisotope production; Ph. D. in biophysics, UCB, 1953; Bikini Island bomb tests; radiation safety standards; heavy ion research; Radioactivity Research Center, UCSF; thoughts on the woman scientist, and comments on Joseph Hamilton, John Lawrence, Kenneth Scott, others. Appendix includes text of "Reminiscences of Crocker Lab." a speech given before the Health Physics Society in San Francisco, June 1976. Two tapes (Phonotape 3371) are partial recordings of the original interviews. The third tape (Phonotape 3280) is a recording of Durbin's 1976 "Reminiscences of Crocker Lab."

Transcript: 1 v. (v, 115 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 3 sound cassettes.

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