[CHY 183] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (40 pages long)
Document Summary
* application of science to criminal and civil laws (in this textbook, mostly those laws enforced by police) * owes it"s origins to individuals such as bertillon, galton, lattes, goddard, osborn and locard who developed the principles needed to identify/compare physical evidence. * mathieu or la: the father of forensic toxicology (poisons) * alphonse bertillon: devised the rst scienti c system of personal identi cation in 1879 (anthropometry) * francis galton: conducted the rst de nitive study of ngerprints and their classi cations. * leone lattes: developed a procedure to determine blood types from dried bloodstains. * calvin goddard: used a comparison microscope to determine if a particular gun red a bullet. * albert osborn: developed the fundamental principles of document examination (ex. forgery) * walter mccrone: utilized microscopy and other analytical methodologies to examine evidence. * hans gross: wrote the rst treatise describing the application of scienti c principles to the eld of criminal investigation (locard"s mentor)
