History

Question 1

Orfilia

Answer 1

Father of toxicology, start of forensics with an arsenic poisoning case

Question 2

Bertillion

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Developed anthropometry, which measures physical features. This was during the 18th-19th century when people were trying to figure out ways for personal identification

Question 3

Anthropometry

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Measurement of physical features that is meant to identify a person. Failed in a US prison with two inmates with the same name and similar measurements. Failure led to the study of fingerprints

Question 4

Herschel and Faulds

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Studied fingerprints for identification

Question 5

Sir Edward Henry

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Created a fingerprint classification system that is still in use today

Question 6

Landsteiner

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Showed that human blood came in different types –> led to ABO typing

Question 7

Watson and Crick

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1950s- discovered functions and structure of DNA

Question 8

Sir Alec Jeffries

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1984- developed first typing method

Question 9

Kary Mullis

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1980s- developed PCR

Question 10

Calvin Goddard

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Use of the comparison microscope (used for ballistics)