Richard Hark
Dr. Richard Hark is a conservation scientist at Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), where he works principally with the collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. After earning his Ph.D., he spent 25 years as a chemistry professor before joining IPCH. He is currently engaged in projects involving scientific analysis of the Vinland map, a Gutenberg Bible, fifteenth-century Italian tarot cards, William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature, and the Yale Center for British Art’s “Reformation to Restoration” British portraits project.