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Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures
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Roman courts determined that bloody palm prints were used to frame a man in his brother’s murder
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King Richard of England introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable death
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A murder in China is solved when flies were attracted to invisible blood residue on a sword of a man in the community
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Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy
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http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/leeuwenhoek.htmlAnton Van Leeuwenhoek constructed the first high-powered microscope
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Paul Revere identified the body of General Joseph Warren based on the false teeth he had made for him
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John Toms convicted of murder on basis of torn edge of wad of paper in pistol matching a piece of paper in his pocket
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http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/chemistry-in-history/themes/the-path-to-the-periodic-table/bunsen-and-kirchhoff.aspxGustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy.
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Crime scene photography developed
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/biographies/bertillon.htmlAlphonse Bertillon developed a system to identify people using particular body measurements
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Edward Henry developed first classification system for fingerprint identification
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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1930/landsteiner-bio.htmlKarl Landsteiner identified human blood groups
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Edmond Locard formulated his famous principle, “Every contact leaves a trace.”
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Francis Aston developed the mass spectrometer.
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James Watson and Francis Crick discover the DNA double helix
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AFIS developed by FBI, fully automated in 1996
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http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/jeffreys.htmlJeffreys developed and used first DNA tests to be applied to a criminal case
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