Dates
Names
Contributions
Forensics
Potpourri
100

1901

What is when blood typing was determined.?

100

Karl Landsteiner

Who was the person who discovered blood typing?

100

James Marsh

Who detected arsenic poisoning?

100

forensics

It is the application of science to criminal and civil laws.

100

The world's largest forensic laboratory.

What is the FBI Laboratory?

200

1915

On what date was a simple procedure developed to determine blood groups.?

200

Edmund Locard

Who was the person who devised the principle of transfer?

200

The approximate date when ballistics and blood stain patterns were first used.

When was the late 1800's? *

200

Doyle

Who created the fictional character Sherlock Holmes?

200

Analysis of evidence, provide expert testimony, collection of physical evidence

What are functions of the forensic scientist?

300

1892

What year did Galton developed a method for classifying fingerprints and publish his book Finger Prints?

300

Alphonse Bertillon

Who was the developer of anthropometry?

300

1879

When were body measurements first developed?

300

Calvin Goddard

Who established the comparison microscope as the indispensable tool of the modern firearms examiner?

300

hairs, fibers, pollen

What are examples of trace evidence?

400

1839

What is when Mathieu Orifila developed toxicology?

400

Mathieu Orfila

Who was considered the father of toxicology?

400

toxicology unit

What unit is responsible for examination of body fluids and organs for the presence of drugs and poisons.

400

Edmond Locard

Who developed the first workable crime lab?

400

odontology

What is the study of teeth & bite marks?

500

1980's

What is when DNA was first used in forensics?

500

Albert Osborn

"Questioned Documents"

500

Walter McCrone 

prominent microscopist

500

Los Angeles Police Department

What is the oldest forensic lab in the U. S.?

500

another term for forensic science

What is criminalistics?