White,+Jennifer

__The History of Forensic Science and Arson Investigation__
 * Proposal**

 What I would like to do for my individual project is to study a field of science, and trace back its history. The field that I would like to study is the forensic science field. I would focus mostly on arson investigation which is one of the types of forensic science. I would also touch on other types of forensic science and how they all have similarities and differences. I would then trace this field back to Chemistry, which is an extremely important part of forensic lab work. From there, I will talk about how it dates back to Alchemy and to the dark ages. I will also talk about Russell A. Ogle, Gregory Haussmann, Robert J. Lucas, Andrew R. Carpenter, Delmar R. Morrison III who all wrote a paper on The Scientific Investigation of Arson Fires and explain how this helped me in investigating this. In order to do this I will work with my brother who is a forensic chemist, and I will be able to obtain papers on this field.

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 * 1.) History of forensic chemistry**

A.)Criminal

1.) fingerprinting

a.) first used by ancient Chinese

2.) bullet to murder weapon matching

a.) 1835 Henry Goddard used physical analysis to identify bullet 2 weapon

3.) chemical tests

a.) 1836- James marsh chemical test to detect arsenic

b.) 1930 Karl Landstiener classified human blood in groups

4.) police labs

a.) first one was created by Augustus vollmer in 1924


 * 1.) Types of forensic chemistry**

A.) types of forensic chemistry

1.) Forensic anthropology

a.) examining bone fragments

2.) Computer forensic

a.) organizing and gathering data from media

3.) forensic toxicology

a.) chemical studies ( drugs and alcohol)

4.) forensic accounting

a.) seeking financial inconstancies

5.) forensic scientist

a.) applies scientific knowledge to legal matters

6.) Arson Investigator


 * 1.) Top forensic scientists**

A.) top 7 scientists who shaped the forensic feild

1.) Edmund Lockard

a.) pioneer in forensic science, proved that everyone leaves a trace

2.) Joseph Bell

a.) pioneer in forensic pathology

3.) Sara Bisel

a.) started to use chemical and physical analysis of the skeletons found in the Herculaneum

4.) Clea Koff

a.) her skills helped bring some perpetrators of the genocide on trial

5.) Cyril Wecht

a.) consulted on the speculation on the death of John Kennedy

6.) William Maples

a.) studies remains of the famously ex. The elephant man, the dead family of czar Nicholas the second

2 additional paragraphs will be added with my brother

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