Important people in Forensics

Question 1

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

Answer 1

Tested to detect the poison Arsenic in corpses.

Question 2

Mathieu Orfila

Answer 2

Father of Toxicology

* 1812 - published a book about detecting poisons.

Question 3

Alphonse Bertillon

Answer 3

• Developed the 1st Criminal ID

* Anthropometry - 11 body measurements

Question 4

Sir Edward Richard Henry

Answer 4

• Developed Fingerprint Id

Question 5

William Nichol

Answer 5

Invented the Light Microscope

Question 6

Henri-Louis Benyard

Answer 6

Microscoped detected sperm and helped rape cases

Question 7

Hans Gross

Answer 7

• Austrian Judge and Prosecutor

* Published Criminal Investigation book

Question 8

Karl Landsteiner

Answer 8

Discovered blood groups

Question 9

Edmund Locard

Answer 9

Locard’s exchange principle

Question 10

Walter McCrone

Answer 10

Microscopy expert

Question 11

Albert Osburn

Answer 11

• Published “Questioned Documents”

- Document Forgery expert

Question 12

Calvin Goddard

Answer 12

Invented comparison microscope

Question 13

• Rosalind Franklin
• James Watson
• Francis Crick

Answer 13

• Franklin discovered DNA

- Watson and Crick only discovered the structure of DNA and got credit for finding DNA

Question 14

Alec Jeffreys

Answer 14

Invented DNA FIngerprinting by variable regions on DNA

Question 15

1st Crime Lab In US

Answer 15

Los Angeles P.D. Crime Lab

Question 16

Only Lab in TX to do All analyses types

Answer 16

Austin Lab