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Henry P. DeFORREST pioneers were the first systematic use of fingerfrints in the United States.
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Georg POPP uses feologic evidence in a criminal case for the first time.
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Albert S. Osborne, an american and arguably the most influential document examiner, publishes Questioned Documents.
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Edmond locard demonstrates the value of poroscopy in the criminal trail of Boudet and Simonin.
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Albert Schneider of Berkeley, California first uses a vacuum apparatus to collect trace evidence.
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Charles E. Waite is the first to catalog manufacturing data about weapons.
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John Larson and Leonard Keeler designed their portable polygraph.
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Schuller suggests that frontal sinuses can be used for identification.
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August Vollmer as cheif of police in Los Angeles, California, implements the first U.S. police crime laboratory.
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Landsteiner and Levine first detect the M, N, and P blood factors leading to development of the MNSs and P typing systems.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) crime laboratory is created.
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Franz Josef Holzer publishes the first paper addressing the usefulness of secretor status for forensic applications.
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M. Polonovski and M. Jayle were first to identify haptoglobin.
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Landsteiner and A.S. Wiener were first to describe Rh blood groups.
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Mourant first describes the Lewis blood group system.
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James Watson and Francis Crick publish landmark paper indentifying the structure of DNA.
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De Saram further publishes important papers on time since death.
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A. S. Weiner and colleagues introduce the use of H-lectin to determine positively O blood type.
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Hungary becomes the first country in Europe to carry out research in the subject of lip prints.
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Hopkinson and colleagues first identify the polymorphic nature of esterase D (ESD).
