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Scientists found a way to visualize fingerprints even after they have cleaned, relating too how fingerprints can corrode metal surfaces.
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Japanese researches a dental x-ray matching system. The system can automatically match dental x-rays in a database and matches someones teeth in less then a four seconds
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A development occurred in 2007 and the data called Footwear Intelligence Technology contains thousand of footwear prints which can be used to identify the footwear that caused the marks
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Mathieu Orfilla, known as father of Forensic
Toxicology, published the first scientific treatise on the detection of poison. -
Italian surgeons Fortunato Fidelis and Paolo Zacchia laid the foundation of modern pathology by studying the changes in the structure of the body due to a disease.
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The mid 1980's brought the biggest leap for forensic science since the analog fingerprinting DNA matching
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Edmond Locard formulated the basic principle of forensic science every contact leaves a trace.
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The Henry classification system developed by Sir Edward Henry was adopted as the standard for criminal fingerprinting techniques worldwide.
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Sir Francis Galton developed the first technique of fingerprinting matching
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Henry Goddard became the first to connect a bullet to a murder weapon using physical analysis.
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Swedish chemist, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, first developed a chemical test to detect arsenic in corpses.
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The Book Xi Yuan Lu by Song Ci in China became the earliest available literature to help determine the cause of death
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A Roman Physician Antistius performed the first officially recorded autopsy on the slain body of Roman politician Julius Caesar.
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Roman Crater and jurist Quintilian used basic Forensics to acquit an innocent.
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The practice of removal and examination of the internal organs of humans after death by the Egyptians can be cited as the earliest example of autopsy.