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their ideal relationship, but the Chicago development will unite them 

 nil, and will constitute a unique combination of weapons to increase 

 the assault on cancer. Physically, four buildings will make up this 

 center. One of these is the Ion Accelerator Building, which contains 

 the university's new 170-inch synchrocyclotron. A second is the 

 Goldblatt Hospital, named for one of the department-store Goldblatt 

 brothers who died of cancer; it will make use of, among many things, 

 the products turned out by the university's cyclotron. The other two 

 buildings are to be government-owned but university-operated, and 

 they are the Argonne National Laboratory (located just outside 

 Chicago), which contains nuclear reactors, and the Argonne Cancer 

 Research Hospital, which will make use of the products turned out 

 by the Laboratory. But the important point is that since the uni- 

 versity will operate all four, since three of them are on the university 

 campus and the fourth only 40 minutes away, since two of them are 

 exclusively concerned with cancer, and since the staff members of all 

 four will help each other on common problems, the University of 

 Chicago and the Atomic Energy Commission in combination will 

 liave an installation for attacking cancer such as exists nowhere else 

 in the world. 



Today cancer is being fought on longer fronts and more fronts 

 than ever before. No one knows by whom or in what research project 

 the discoveries so long sought after will be made ; no one knows even 

 that they will be made. But men and women all over the country, 

 in biology, in physics, in chemistry, in medicine, in surgery, in atomic 

 energy, and in nontechnical capacities, are devoting their time and 

 money to the chance that they will be made. It hardly seems too 

 much to hope that in this fight atomic weapons will play an 

 important — perhaps a decisive — part. 



