Impactful people in Forensics

Question 1

Leone Lattes

Answer 1

Rehydrated blood to determine blood types (Class evidence)

Question 2

Sir Alec Jeffreys

Answer 2

Discovered split genes and gene mutations to match to suspectsKa

Question 3

Kary B. Mullis

Answer 3

Created the Polymerase Chain Reaction by heating up DNA and breaking the chains to copy small pieces and match them to suspects.

Question 4

Sir Francis Galton

Answer 4

Detailed the uniqueness of fingerprints (Minutiae)

Question 5

Edmond Locard

Answer 5

Father of Forensics, Everything that comes into contact with each other has a mutual exchange of material.

Question 6

Alphonse Bertillon

Answer 6

Used physical descriptions, photos, and measurements to describe suspects and catch them. Replaced by fingerprinting.

Question 7

Walter McCrone

Answer 7

Microscopy, 600 technical pubs, 16 books, 60 chapters of procedures on how to use a light microscope (He created).

Question 8

Albert Osborn

Answer 8

Analysed all types of documents to make sure they were not forged and used in court.

Question 9

Mathieu Orfila

Answer 9

Father of Toxicology

Question 10

Hans Gross

Answer 10

Criminalistics: criminology and studied investigations

Question 11

Calvin Goddard

Answer 11

Created a lab in Northwestern to study bullet casings and match them to guns

Question 12

J Edgar Hoover

Answer 12

Worked in the Department of Justice and created the FBI’s Most Wanted (Public Enemy List)

Question 13

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Answer 13

Writer of Sherlock Holmes