What are 2 major contributions to forensic science made by Hans Gross?


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In 1891, Hans Gross, examining magistrate and professor of criminal law at the University of Graz, Austria, published Criminal Investigation, the first comprehensive description of uses of physical evidence in solving crime. Gross is also sometimes credited with coining the word criminalistics. Gross adapted some fields to the needs of criminal investigation, such as crime scene photography.

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