important people Flashcards
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sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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had considerable influence on popularizing scientific crime-detection methods through his fictional character Sherlock Holmes
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Mathieu Orfila - spanish/French
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- Considered father of forensic toxicology
- Published first scientific treatise on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals
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Alphonse Bertillon ** French
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- Devised the first scientific system of personal identification
- Anthropometry -> procedure of taking a series of body measurements as a means of distinguishing one individual from another
- For decades, considered the most accurate method of personal identification
- Father of criminal identification
- was first person to use fingerprints to solve crime
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Francis Galton ** English
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- First definitive study of fingerprints - loop, arch, whorl
- Published book titled finger prints in 1892
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Leone Lattes
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Devised simple procedure for determining blood groups of a dried bloodstain
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Calvin Goddard - American
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- Refined techniques of bullets/gun by using comparison microscope
- Established the comparison microscope as the indispensable tool of modern firearms examiner
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Albert Osborn
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Development of fundamental principles of document examination for the acceptance of documents as scientific evidence by the courts
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Walter Mccrone
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Preeminent microscopist
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Hans Gross - Austrian
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Wrote first treatise describing application of scientific disciplines to the field of criminal investigation
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Edmond Locard ** - French
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- Demonstrated how the principles could be incorporated within a workable crime lab
- Locard’s exchange principle -> whenever two objects come into contact with one another, there is an exchange of materials between them
- developed forensic lab in France
- interested in microscope and trace evidence
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Victor Balthazard ** - French
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- medical examiner in Paris
- probability models for fingerprints - 1 in 10 to power of 60 chance people would have same fingerprint
- photographic methods of comparing bullet markings
- wrote first comprehensive book on hair analysis
