FORENSIC HISTORY AND CAREERS: HOSA FORENSIC MEDICINE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
Juan Vucetich - ANSWER Began the first fingerprint files in 1891 Gilbert Thompson - ANSWER Completed the first official use of the fingerprint in the United States in 1882 Dr. Henry Faulds - ANSWER Was the first to devise a method of classification based on fingerprints in 1880 Sir William Hershel - ANSWER Was the first to use fingerprinting identification as a method of identification on a large scale in 1856 Calvin Goddard - ANSWER He established the study of firearms evidence in the US () - was an internationally renowned pioneer in forensic ballistics - established a variety of police labs in the US - invented the comparison scope ( a device used to analyze two specimens side by side at the same time) Edmond Locard - ANSWER Established the Locard Exchange Principle and focused on trace evidence () - established forensic lab in Lyons France in 1910 Alphonse Bertillon - ANSWER Developed anthropometry () - was the first to solve a case using fingerprints Victor Bathazard - ANSWER Paris medical examiner who advanced fingerprint, firearm, and hair analysis () - showed fingerprints are unique to the 10^60 - used photography to help identify bullets Hans Gross - ANSWER Father of criminalistics ( ) - helped to establish the science of forensics, especially in terms of a cross-transfer of evidence, such as dirt, fingerprints, carpet fibers, or hair, from the criminal to the victim - published first forensic science textbook in 1893 (named Criminal Investigations) M
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