Frances Glessner Lee

Frances Glessner Lee, who lived from 1878 to 1962, was an American forensic scientist credited with helping establish forensic science as a professional field in the United States. She is best known for creating the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, a series of twenty miniature crime scene dioramas built at dollhouse scale and used to train homicide investigators, eighteen of which remain in active use by the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. She also helped establish Harvard University's Department of Legal Medicine and, in 1943, became the first female police captain in the United States.