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This dimension names the specific kind of evidence a forensic discipline actually examines, DNA, fingerprints, ballistics or digital data. Wikipedia notes that forensic science covers "the analysis of DNA, fingerprints, bloodstain patterns, firearms, ballistics, toxicology, microscopy, and fire debris analysis." Browsing this way collects every discipline that examines the same kind of evidence.

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1813 1
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1. Mathieu Orfila (Wikipedia)
Mathieu Orfila, Role in forensic toxicology section
Quote, Mathieu Orfila, Role in forensic toxicology section
Orfila created new techniques, refined existing techniques and described them in his first treatise, Traite des poisons (1813)
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