Criminalistics An Introduction to Forensic Science Top Predicted Questions and Answers

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Author of the Sherlock Holmes stories Mathieu Orfila - Father of forensic toxicology. Published a scientific treatise on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals. This treatise established forensic toxicology as a legitimate scientific endeavor. Alphonse Bertillon - Father of Criminal Identification- using Anthropometry (body measurements as a means of identification) Francis Galton - Developed the method of classifying fingerprints Karl Landsteiner & Leone Lattes - - former discovered diff blood groups in 1901 - latter developed technique to determine blood type of a dried stain (1915) Calvin Goddard - Developed the method for microscope in the usage of the comparsion of firearms Albert Osborn - developed fundamental principles of document examination responsible for the acceptance of documents as scientific evidence by the courts Walter McCrone - utilized microscopy and other analytical methodologies to examine evidence Hans Gross - Wrote the first treatise describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation in 1893.