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as chief of police in Los Angeles, California, implemented the first U.S. police crime laboratory
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a Japanese scientist, is credited with the first recognition of secretion of group-specific antigens into
body fluids other than blood. -
took place in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, was responsible for popularizing
the use of the comparison microscope for bullet comparison -
first detected the M, N, and P blood factors leading to development of the MNSs and P
typing systems. -
was the first medico-legal investigator to suggest the identification of salivary amlyase as a presumptive test
for salivary stains. -
work on the St. Valentine’s day massacre led to the founding of the Scientific Crime Detection
Laboratory on the campus of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. -
a Japanese scientist, conducted the first comprehensive investigation establishing the existence of
serological isoantibodies in body fluids other than blood. -
founded and published by staff of Goddard’s Scientific Crime Detection
Laboratory in Chicago. In 1932, it was absorbed by Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, becoming the Journal
of Criminal Law, Criminology and police science. -
an Austrian scientist, working at the Institute for Forensic Medicine of the University of
Innsbruck, developed the absorbtion-inhibition ABO typing technique that became the basis of that commonly used in
forensic laboratories. It was based on the prior work of Siracusa and Lattes. -
The Federal Bureau of Investigationcrime laboratory was created.
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a Dutch physicist, invented the first interference contrast microscope, a phase contrast microscope, an
achievement for which he won the Nobel prize in 1953 -
published the first paper addressing the usefulness of secretor status for forensic applications.
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at the University Institute for Legal Medicine and Scientific Criminalistics in Jena, Germany,
developed the chemiluminescent reagent luminol as a presumptive test for blood. -
assumed leadership of the criminology program at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1945, he formalized a major in technical criminology
