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Orfila founded modern toxicology, he was the first person to discover arsenic in murder victims blood. -
Made the first real study on fingerprints for identification and made a system in order to classify and organize them. Also founded the Eugenics Society. “Hereditary Genius” book. -
Bertillon designed a system of measurements to help more easily distinguish people, The Bertillon System. Including things like height, head circumference, and more. -
Doyle created the character Sherlock Holmes, he wrote 56 short novels about him. These stories were a milestone for the field of crime fiction. -
Uncovered the different types of blood groups in 1901, and before they only relied on fingerprints to pinpoint suspects. This was later called the A-B-O system. -
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He helped establish the first institution primarily devoted to firearms and its examinations (ballistic testing). He founded the science in fired bullets and empty cartridges, showing that when everytime a bullet is fired it makes a tiny imprint that shows the type of gun that fired it off. Extra: was one of the leads on the St Valentine's Day Massacre as the ballistics analyst (1929) -
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He founded the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE)Extra: made a book (year? name?) “Questioned Documents” in 1910. Extra: made a book (year? name?) “Questioned Documents” in 1910 -
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Mullis became known for the process called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in which a small part of DNA can be copied over and over in large quantities. -
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http://www.asqde.org/about/presidents/osborn_as.html http://stvalentinemassacre.com/article/ballistics#:~:text=Goddard%20developed%20the%20science%20of,time%20that%20gun%20is%20fired
https://sites.google.com/site/magicofforensicscience/lesson-1?tmpl=%2Fsystem%2Fapp%2Ftemplates%2Fprint%2F&showPrintDialog=1
https://www.biography.com/scientist/francis-galton -