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Are there any moments that stick in your head as really key advancements Norris and Gettler made to propel the field of forensic medicine? Gettler did the first work that allowed scientists to tell that a person had been intoxicated at time of death. He designed not only the test...
Deborah Blum knows so much about poison that even her husband sometimes shies away from her. In her new book, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York, the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer profiles the two men, New York City chief...
Why choose these two men to profile? I knew that forensic science in the U.S. had been born in the 1920s - I just wanted to figure out who was doing it. I looked at a few scientists before and in the footnotes would see Alexander Gettler talked about as the...
In a lot of the entries I found on forensic science, these two weren't even mentioned. Isn't that incredible? And yet when you go back into the period they're front-page news. They really rewrote forensic history. I think of myself these days as a really good...
For every advancement they made in forensic medicine, some other poison would pop up - it seemed like a never-ending battle. You keep pushing the rock up the hill, right? They were pretty meticulous at hunting down new poisons. And is it a never-ending game? Absolutely. We're always...