Oral history interview with John W. Gofman, 1980 July 24 to 8 August.

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Oral history interview with John W. Gofman, 1980 July 24 to 8 August.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79894768

Interview was part of a series of interviews recorded during 1979 and 1980 with individuals associated with the Donner and Crocker laboratories. Family background and early education; Oberlin College B.A., 1939; University of Michigan Summer School; Western Reserve Medical School; wartime work. To University of California, Berkeley, Department of Chemistry (Glenn Seaborg, E. O. Lawrence), Ph.D., 1943; medical school at University of California, San Francisco, 1943-1946. Donner Laboratory; early research; Atomic Energy Commission support. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1954-1957; radiation effects research; Director, Medical Department; Committee for Nuclear Responsibility; early retirement. Professor of medical physics at Berkeley, 1954-1974. Donner Laboratory administration and academic positions.

Transcript, 260 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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