Big Picture Science – No Face to Hide: Don Olson / Forensic Astronomy

by Gary Niederhoff on September 20, 2015

No Face to Hide – Forensic Astronomy
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Part 1 of No Face to Hide, featuring Don Olson, physicist and astronomer at Texas State University, discussing the field of forensic astronomy, through which he’s determined the time and place of historical images, such as Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and the VJ day photo of the anonymous kissing couple.

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