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_.
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