The forensic historian : using science to reexamine the past /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Robert Chadwell, 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.