Gofman, John W.
Oral history interview with John W. Gofman, 1980 July 24, August 1 and 8.
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.
Born 1918.
Gofman, John W.
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
Seaborg, Glenn Theodore, 1912-
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Medical Department.
Oberlin College.
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Chemistry.
University of Michigan.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Research grants.
Medical physics.
Radiation -- Research.
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Transcripts. aat
Crocker Nuclear Laboratory.
Donner Laboratory.
University of California, San Francisco, Medical.
Western Reserve Medical School, Students.
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA