Charles R. Pellegrino

Charles R. Pellegrino (born May 5, 1953) is an American writer and the author of several books related to science and archaeology including Her Name, Titanic; Ghosts of the Titanic (2000); and To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima (2015).

Biography Pellegrino was born on May 5, 1953, to John and Jane Pellegrino. He grew up in Queens and Rockville Centre, New York. At age 15, Pellegrino was diagnosed with cancer and a rare genetic disease, Ankylosing spondylitis.

Pellegrino claimed to have received a PhD in 1982 from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. The university investigated his claim and said that it had never awarded him a PhD; the university's vice chancellor said that Pellegrino's thesis was not approved and that the Governor-General denied his appeal. A revised edition, To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima, was released on August 6, 2015. It was published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Pellegrino participated in a study to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to image the inside of 70-million-year-old dinosaur eggs. He was also a technical advisor to director James Cameron on the films Titanic and Avatar.