The Author
Dr. Bernard Keisch received his B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Ph.D. from Washington University. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Mellon Institute of Research at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is presently engaged in a project that deals with the applications of nuclear technology to art identification. This is sponsored by the National Gallery of Art and in the past has also received support from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Foundation. Previously he was a nuclear research chemist with the Phillips Petroleum Company and senior scientist at the Nuclear Science and Engineering Corporation. He has contributed articles on art authentication to a number of journals. For ERDA, in addition to this booklet, he has written The Mysterious Box: Nuclear Science and Art, Lost Worlds: Nuclear Science and Archaeology, and Secrets of the Past: Nuclear Energy Applications in Art and Archaeology.