THE AMERICAN FOUNDING FATHER OF BLOODSTAIN PATTERN EVIDENCE—THE KIRK YEARS11Reprinted by permission of John I. Thornton from a speech given before the California Association of Criminalists Founder's Seminar May 1989

Autor: John I. Thornton
Rok vydání: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/b978-012370482-5/50056-2
Popis: Dr. Paul Leland Kirk is remembered as one of the most notable criminalists of the twentieth century. Trained as a chemist, then as a biochemist, and then as an innovative microchemist, he applied his formidable intellectual gifts to the discipline known as criminalistics. He received a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1927 and was appointed a professor of biochemistry in 1929. He developed a whole series of glassware for various types of analysiss and invented the quartz microbalance. This chapter describes the numerous cases Kirk worked on.
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