The forensic historian using science to reexamine the past / Robert C. Williams.
| Author/creator | Williams, Robert C., 1938- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, |
| Description | xiii, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 non-murder 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 last king of France's DNA -- 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 Tut -- The U.S. Navy SEALs : identifying Osama bin Laden -- Tsutomu Shimomura : catching Kevin Mitnick -- Conclusion : modern forensics and historical revision. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012033681 |
| ISBN | 9780765636614 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780765636621 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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