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The first usage of forensic science in recorded history. After a stabbing, knives were collected to see which knife flies were attracted to.
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"Father of Toxicology." Worked to make chemical analysis a routine in forensic medicine, and studied asphyxiation and decomposition.
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Developed methods to detect poison in the human body.
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Anthropologist and police official. Pioneered the use of fingerprinting.
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Developed Anthropometry, identification through body measurements.
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Conducted the first definitive fingerprint study + classification. Published "Finger Prints"
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Wrote the first paper connecting science to criminal investigation. Published "Criminal Investigation"
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The first director of the FBI.
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Discovered the A/B/O blood groups.
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Incorporated Gross' principals into a crime lab, Founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, FR.
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States that an expert opinion is "admissible if the scientific technique on which the opinion is based is 'generally accepted' as reliable in the relevant scientific community."
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Developed techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling.
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The Combined DNA Index System. Allows DNA evidence to be compared electronically, linking many violent crimes.
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The Integrated Ballistics Identification System. A system that compares different evidence related to crime guns, like shell casings and bullets.
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An event where the court ruled that nothing in the Federal Rules of Evidence governing expert evidence "gives any indication that 'general acceptance' is a necessary precondition to the admissibility of scientific evidence."