History Flashcards
Who established toxicology as a branch of forensic science, developed first chemical tests to detect arsenic, and developed chemical tests to identify semen?
Mateu Orfila (1800-1829)
Who first used bullet comparisons to provide evidence in a murder trail to convict?
Henry Goddard (1830s)
Who first observed agglutination of red blood cells?
Landsteiner (1900)
Who first used human hair as forensic evidence?
Rudolph Virchow (1861)
Who proposed fingerprinting for personal identification?
William Herschel (1870s)
Who used latent prints from a crime scene to ID a burglar?
Henry Faulds (1870s)
Who first associated bullets with specific guns and studied blood spatter patterns?
Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne (1890s)
Who published the first treatise on systematic identification of fingerprints?
Francis Galton (1890s)
Who studied probability models for fingerprints, bullet comparison, animal hairs and blood spatter?
Victor Balthazard (1890s)
Who established the first forensic science journal?
Hans Gross (1890s)
Who implied that soil collected from a crime scene could place a person at that location?
Arthur Conan-Doyle (1890s)
Who developed the anthropometrics system, the earliest personal identification system, and the first person in Europe to use latent prints to solve a case?
Alphonse Bertillon (1900s)
Who implemented the fingerprint classification scheme that replaced anthropometry and was head of Scotland Yard?
Sir Edward Richard Henry (1900s)
Who used photomicrographs of bullets for comparison?
Paul Jesrich (1900s)
Who first used botanical evidence during a criminal case in Germany?
Dr. George Popp (1900s)
Who opened the first police crime lab in Europe, site of todays Interpol?
Edmund Locard (1910s)
Who published the first article on bullet markings and bullet individualzation?
Victor Balthazard (1910s)
Who developed the first antibody tests for the ABO blood groups?
Leone Lattes (1910s)
Who developed and applied analysis for tool mark comparison?
Luke May (1920s)
Who cataloged information regarding weapon manufacturing and developed comparison microscopy for bullet comparison?
Charles Wait (1920s)
Who developed an absorption-inhibition ABO typing technique?
Franz Josef Holzer (1930s)
Who published photomicrographs of human and animal hair for criminal investigation use?
John Glaister (1930s)
Who developed the techniques for profile analysis of DNA?
Alex Jeffreys (1985)
When were the first aspects of forensic medicine documented?
China 6th Century
When were questioned documents first used in Europe?
1800s
When were questioned documents first used in the US?
1913
When was the first US police crime laboratory established?
Los Angeles 1920s
When did Locard make his observations about trace evidence?
1920s
When was the first FBI crime lab established?
1932
When was Rhesus blood groups discovered?
1940s
When was the American Academy of Forensic Science and Journal of Forensic Science formed?
1950s
When was the polymorphic nature of EAP, PGM, and AK determined resulting in electrophoretic techniques for haptoglobin typing and isoenzyme testing?
1960s
When was DNA profiling first used in US courts and its standardization?
1980s
When was the FBI CODIS DNA database established?
1998
