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developed the techniques for profile analysis of DNA and published them in (1985) -
Answer ✔✔- Alex Jeffreys
developed the anthropometrics system which was the most significant and earliest
personal identification system, and the first person in Europe to use latent prints to solve
a criminal case (1900's) - Answer ✔✔- Alphonse Bertillon
suggested that soil collected on a person at a crime scene could be used as evidence to
place that person at that location (1890-1899) - Answer ✔✔- Arthur Conan-Doyle
cataloged information regarding weapon manufacture and developed comparison
microscopy for bullet comparison (1920 - 1929) - Answer ✔✔- Charles Waite
first to associate bullets with a specific gun and first to
study blood spatter patterns (1890-1899) - Answer ✔✔- Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne
first recorded use of botanical evidence in Germany during criminal case (1900-1909) -
Answer ✔✔- Dr. George Popp
first police crime lab in Europe, in Lyons; location of today's Interpol (1910-1920) -
Answer ✔✔- Edmund Locard
published first treatise on systematic identification of fingerprints (1890-1899) - Answer
✔✔- Francis Galton
developed an absorption-inhibition ABO typing technique (1930's) - Answer ✔✔- Franz
Josef Holzer
established a journal dedicated to forensic science (1890-1899) - Answer ✔✔- Hans
Gross
first to use bullet comparisons to provide evidence leading to the arrest of a murderer
(1830's) - Answer ✔✔- Henry Goddard
used latent prints from a crime scene to ID a burglar (1870-1879) - Answer ✔✔- Henry
Faulds
, published a work containing 1700 photomicrographs that show the structure of hair of
humans and other mammals and their relation to criminal investigation (1930 - 1939) -
Answer ✔✔- John Glaister
first observed the agglutination of red blood cells within human sera (1900) - Answer
✔✔- Landsteiner
first developed antibody tests for the ABO blood groups (1910 -1920) - Answer ✔✔-
Leone Lattes
developed and applied analysis for toolmark comparison (1920 - 1929) - Answer ✔✔-
Luke May
one of the first experts to provide reliable scientific
evidence in court and academics in toxicology and credited with establishing toxicology
as
a branch of forensic science (1800-1810), helped develop the first chemical test to
detect arsenic and
produced the first scientific treatise on the detection of poisons, and developed a series
of chemical test for semen identification
(1820-1829) - Answer ✔✔- Mateu Orfila
acquired photomicrographs of bullets for comparison (1900) - Answer ✔✔- Paul Jesrich
reported the first forensic investigation of human hair and
determined a questioned hair from a crime suspect was indistinguishable from his
victim's (1861) - Answer ✔✔- Rudolph Virchow
appointed head of Scotland Yard and implemented his fingerprint classification scheme,
which eventually replaced anthropometry in Europe and North America (1900's) -
Answer ✔✔- Sir Edward Richard Henry
studied probability models for fingerprints, bullet comparison, animal hairs, and blood
spatter patterns (1890-1899), and published first scientific article on bullet markings and
relation to bullet individualization (1910-1920) - Answer ✔✔- Victor Balthazard
proposed the application of fingerprinting for personal
identification (1870-1879) - Answer ✔✔- William Herschel
aspects of forensic medicine first documented in China - Answer ✔✔- 6th Century
Chinese manuscript provide methods to determine death by drowning, strangulation or
natural causes - Answer ✔✔- 1247