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)
