Edward Oscar Heinrich, who lived from 1881 to 1953, was an American forensic scientist and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley who opened one of the nation's first private crime laboratories in 1910. Over a career spanning roughly forty years he applied chemistry, microscopy and other scientific methods to an estimated two thousand criminal cases, including developing microscopic bullet analysis techniques used in the 1925 case against the killer of Charles Colwell. His striking success in solving cases through physical evidence led the press to nickname him America's Sherlock Holmes.
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BirthplaceClintonville, Wisconsin 1 Defining ContributionOpened the nation's first private crime lab 1 Connections
Disciplines Pioneered
Edward Oscar Heinrich, dubbed "America's Sherlock Holmes," was an early American forensic scientist who applied chemistry, microscopy and physics across hundreds of criminal cases, helping establish criminalistics as a general applied discipline in the United States.
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1. Wikipedia: Edward O. Heinrich
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1881-04-20
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1953-09-28
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Clintonville, Wisconsin, US
Career
America's Sherlock Holmes
Introduction
opened the nation's first private crime lab
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