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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. |