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The Bertillon system
Lifecycle of a blow fly
Life cycle of the black blow fly
Gregor Mendel
Key accomplishments: DNA
Murder the Result of Various Injuries, 1898
19th-century forensic imaging
Arsenic-based medicine, Wm. R. Warner & Co., about 1900
The Marsh test
Skull showing gun shot trauma Male profile, 1950s
Reading gunshot patterns
Human hair seen through a microscope, 1931
The invention of photomicrography
Wilhelm Röntgen
Key accomplishments: radiology
Spectroscope, about 1920
Spectral detection
Robert Bunsen
Key accomplishments: toxicology
Computer reconstruction of bite mark, 2003
Virtopsy: the virtual autopsy

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Last reviewed: 03 December 2014
Last updated: 05 June 2014
First published: 16 February 2006