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Karl Landsteiner was the first to discover human blood groups, thus getting him a Nobel Prize for this profound discovery.
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Henry P. Deforrest is the first to actually use fingerprints in the United States as a means of evidence.
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Professor R.A. Reiss sets up the first legitimate forensic science curricula at the University of Lausanne.
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Oskar and Rudolf Adler develop the Benzedrine blood test.
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Theodore Roosevelt officially establishes the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Georg Popp and the Margarethe Filbert Case establish forensic geology.
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Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert publish the first comprehensible hair test.
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Masaeo Takayama creates another test for hemoglobin using hemochromogen crystals.
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Victor Balthazard published the first article on individualizing bullet markings.
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Leone Lattes develops the first antibody test for ABO blood groups.
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Albert Schneider is the first to use a vacuum apparatus to collect trace evidence.
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Charles E. Waite is the first that catalogs manufacturing data about weapons.
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John Larson and Leonard Keeler design the portable polygraph.
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Saburo Sirai is given recognition for his discovery of secretion of group specific antigens in body fluids other than blood.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation establishes the first crime lab.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLfUTpDDNk0) "Video of the Inside of a Crime Lab Today"
