A forensic scientist who helped to verify the remains of the last Tsar and his family will discuss how it was done at a lecture at UCD this Friday. Dr Peter Gill works with the UK Forensic Science Service in Birmingham and was among a group of experts who were asked to test the human bones exhumed at Ekaterinburg in Russia, where Tsar Nicholas II and his family were incarcerated after the 1917 uprising.
His talk entitled, "Verification of the remains of the Romanov family", takes place in Theatre D, Science Lecture Building, UCD, Belfield at 6.30 p.m. this Friday, May 22nd, and admission is free.