History of Forensics

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  • DeForrest

    DeForrest

    Pioneers the first systematic use of fingerprints in the United States

  • R. Fischer

    R. Fischer furrows the red part of human lips which formed a basis for cheiloscopy
  • Popp

    Popp

    Georg Popp uses geological evidence in a case for the first time
  • Roosevelt establishes the FBI

    Roosevelt establishes the FBI

    Roosevelt establishes the FBI

  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson builds the first mass spectrometer known as the hyperbola spectrograph
  • Locard

    Locard

    pictureLocard came up with his own principal.
  • Structure of DNA discovered

    Structure of DNA discovered

    Watson and Crick made model of DNA

  • Fiddes and Patten

    Fiddes and Patten write a paper on how someone can determine time from death based on cooling.

  • R.R. Race

    R.R. Race first describes the Kell blood group system