The forensic historian : using science to reexamine the past /
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface. Mildred Trotter and the bone yard of war
- Mikhail Gerasimov : making Ivan the Terrible's face
- Paul Coremans : the girl with the Bakelite earring
- Walter McCrone : ink testing the Vinland map
- Julius Grant : ultraviolet light on the "Hitler diaries"
- Walter McCrone again : carbon-14 dating the Shroud of Turin
- Phillipe Charlier : the bogus remains of Joan of Arc
- Sten Forshufvud : the arsenic in Napoleon's hair
- Vincent Guinn : the "magic bullet" and the Kennedy assassination
- William Maples : the death of Zachary Taylor
- William Walsh : testing Beethoven's hair
- Clyde Snow : identifying the "Angel of Death"
- Peter Gill : Romanov bones and DNA matches
- Eugene Foster : Jefferson's children
- Jean-Jacques Cassiman : the heart of the last king of France
- Linda Strausbaugh : Hitler's skull
- Jeffrey Taubenberger : tracking the killer virus of 1918
- Tim Foecke and Jennifer McCarty : testing the Titanic rivets
- Zahi Hawass : the CT-scans of King Tutankhamun
- The U.S. Navy SEALs : identifying Osama bin Laden
- Tsutomu Shimomura : catching Kevin Mitnick
- Conclusion. Modern forensics and historical revision.