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OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

who provided the satistical significance of the uniqueness of fingerprints?

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Francis Galton i think...

OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

Great, thank you! can i ask a couple more questions, please?

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Sure

OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

who opened the first crime lab and said that everything in contact with the crime scene left traces amoint of evidence?

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

First crime lab In the us?

OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

i would assume so

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

August Vollmer, chief of the Los Angeles Police, established the first American police crime laboratory in 1924.

OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

aww :( his name isnt correct

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Lolz what do you mean?

OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

heres my choices, i have mathieu Orfila, Alphonse Berillon, Francis Galton, Edmund Locard

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Ok let me look at their names

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (24 April 1787 – 12 March 1853) was a minorcan -born French toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology.

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be identified by name or photograph. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting.

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 April 1966) was a pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace". This became known as Locard's exchange principle.

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Sir Francis Galton, FRS (/ˈfrɑːnsɪs ˈɡɔːltən/; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911) was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist,[1][2] anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909.

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

There ya go

OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

thats a lot XD

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

Lolz yup, We can thank the internet xD

OpenStudy (hayleymeyer):

thanks! i gotta start a new question

OpenStudy (jjwalton04):

ok

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