The forensic historian using science to reexamine the past / Robert C. Williams.

Author/creator Williams, Robert C., 1938-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoArmonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe,
Descriptionxiii, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index.
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LCCN 2012033681
ISBN9780765636614 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780765636621 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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