Dna

Forensic Science

By ThomasS8CL

  • Zacharias Janssen builds the compound microscope

  • Period: to

    Forensic History from start till today

  • Poeple learn of the importance of fingerprints

  • William Herschel notices that each fingerprint has a different mark and that fingerprints stay the same throughout their lives

  • Alphonse Bertillon realises that photos can help solve crime

  • Francis Galton makes the 3 main fingerprint catagories

    : loops, whorls, or arches

  • Karl Landsteiner learns that not everyone has the same blood

    Main types are: A, B, AB and O

  • Scotland Yard starts using the Galton-Henry system

  • Karl devised the "ABO" test for bloodstains

    This is used for cutting down a list of suspects

  • Edmund Locard sets up the first forensic science laboratory

    He also developed the theory that "Every criminal takes something away and leaves something behind at a crime scene"

  • Dr John Larson Creates the lie detector or polygraph machine

  • Fishers donate shark to aquariam

    Shark vommits up an arm which was traced back to James Smith

  • Alec Jeffreys discovered that our bodies are made up of cells

    In the center of a cell are strands of information called DNA

  • The "fox" a.k.a Malcolm Fairley is arrested

    Forensic investigators found a series of clues leading to the mans arrest