Historical Figures of Forensic Science

Question 1

Developed first DNA profiling Test

Accepted Answer

Sir Alec Jeffreys

Question 2

Microscopes are a very important part of forensics, who developed one that is polarizable?

Accepted Answer

William Nichol

Question 3

First to discover blood typing of blood:

Accepted Answer

Karl Landsteiner

Question 4

Developed a procedure for determining group from a dried bloodstain.

Accepted Answer

Leone Lattes

Question 5

One of the first cases in forensic science involved the use of ______ in an arson crime.

Accepted Answer

pigs

Question 6

Leader in firearms identification

Accepted Answer

Calvin Goddard

Question 7

First to suggest using fingerprints for identification:

Accepted Answer

Thomas Taylor

Question 8

The first person to study fingerprints with statistics:

Accepted Answer

Francis Galton

Question 9

This scientist developed the first system of measuring the body known as anthropometry:

Accepted Answer

Alphonse Bertillon

Question 10

Wrote the first book on questioned documents

Accepted Answer

Albert Osborn

Question 11

Edmond ______ Exchange Principle

Accepted Answer

Locard

Question 12

Who developed the first test for the poison arsenic?

Accepted Answer

Carl Scheele

Question 13

First to write a treatise establishing the use of other disciplines in forensics:

Accepted Answer

Hans Gross

Question 14

Who is know as the father of Toxicology?

Accepted Answer

Mathieu Orfila

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