Forensic Timeline- Kendall McCarley

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  • Teeth Identification

    Paul Revere recognizes dentures he had made for his friend Dr. Joseph Warren and thus identifies the doctor’s body in a mass grave at Bunker Hill.

  • Fingerprint Classification System

    Johannes Purkinje (1787–1869) devises the first crude fingerprint classification system.

  • Bullet Matching

    Henry Goddard (1866–1957) matches two bullets to show they came from the same bullet mould.

  • Hair Analysis

    The first paper on hair analysis is published in France.

  • Blood Test

    Izaak van Deen (1804–1869) develops the guaiac test for blood.

  • Discovery of DNA

    Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895) discovers DNA.

  • Powder Dusting

    Henry Faulds (1843–1930) shows that powder dusting will expose latent fingerprints.

  • Fingerprint Classification

    Sir Edward Richard Henry devises a fingerprint classification system that is the basis for those used in Britain and America today.

  • ABO Blood Type System

    Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943) delineates the ABO blood typing system.

  • Genetic Information

    Oswald Avery (1877–1955), Colin MacLeod (1909–1972), and Maclyn McCarty (1911–2005) discover that DNA carries genetic information.