Jo Ann Caplin, CHF Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow, Science Television Workshop

Chemical Heriage Foundation

Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 11:20 pm EST

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Information: 215-873-8289 or bbl@chemheritage.org


Jo Ann Caplin took Oxford Leonardo scholar Martin Kemp on a journey to see a work that might or might not be by Leonardo da Vinci. She recorded the work in scans of 240 million pixels that were blown up. Then they traveled to the “vault” where the work was stored. Come with us on this journey of discovery and find out . . . is she or is she not a Leonardo? Carbon-14 techniques, fingerprint analysis, and new computer technology helped verify the “author” of this work.


Jo Ann Caplin, the Société de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) 2009–2010 Fellow, is doing research and filming on the relationships between science and art for her PBS series “Science+Art.” Caplin is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer, as well as a former professor and distinguished chair at Ithaca College. Currently, she is a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on the science of Leonardo da Vinci and on science writing concentrating on genetics. She is president of the Science Television Workshop.