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Mathieu Orfilia
Orfila founded modern toxicology, he was the first person to discover arsenic in murder victims blood. -
Francis Galton
Made the first real study on fingerprints for identification and made a system in order to classify and organize them. Also founded the Eugenics Society. “Hereditary Genius” book. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Bertillon designed a system of measurements to help more easily distinguish people, The Bertillon System. Including things like height, head circumference, and more. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyle created the character Sherlock Holmes, he wrote 56 short novels about him. These stories were a milestone for the field of crime fiction. -
Leone Lattes
Uncovered the different types of blood groups in 1901, and before they only relied on fingerprints to pinpoint suspects. This was later called the A-B-O system. -
Albert S Osborn made a book “Questioned Documents”
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Crimes labs were first built in Los Angeles
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Calvin Goddard
He helped establish the first institution primarily devoted to firearms and its examinations (ballistic testing). He founded the science in fired bullets and empty cartridges, showing that when everytime a bullet is fired it makes a tiny imprint that shows the type of gun that fired it off. Extra: was one of the leads on the St Valentine's Day Massacre as the ballistics analyst (1929) -
Calvin Goaddard was one of the leads on the St Valentine's Day Massacre as the ballistics analyst
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Albert S Osborn
He founded the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE)Extra: made a book (year? name?) “Questioned Documents” in 1910. Extra: made a book (year? name?) “Questioned Documents” in 1910 -
Kary B. Mullis won a nobel peace prize for chemistry
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Kary B. Mullis
Mullis became known for the process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in which a small part of DNA can be copied over and over in large quantities. -
Facial sketches matched to photos
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Sources
http://www.asqde.org/about/presidents/osborn_as.html http://stvalentinemassacre.com/article/ballistics#:~:text=Goddard%20developed%20the%20science%20of,time%20that%20gun%20is%20fired
https://sites.google.com/site/magicofforensicscience/lesson-1?tmpl=%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Ftemplates%2Fprint%2F&showPrintDialog=1
https://www.biography.com/scientist/francis-galton -