LEONE LATTES
Karen Reyna
Yuanyuan Wei
FACTS ABOUT LEONE
He was born in 1887
and died in 1954.
 He was an Italian
scientist.
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CONTRIBUTION
TO
FORENSICS
Lattes created a procedure to use dried
bloodstains and grouped them in groups
such as A, B, AB, and O.
 Lattes discovered this new procedure in
1915.
 The procedure relied on specific antibodies
found in the bloodstains to determine the
blood type.
 The procedure is still used by scientists
today.
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HOW IT AFFECTED
THE
WORLD
A woman found bloodstains on her husband’s
shirt and accused him of adultery. The
husband asked for help to prove his loyalty,
and Lattes used his procedure to determine
that the blood was that husband’s.
 A man was suspected of murder because of
the bloodstains found on his coat. Lattes used
his procedure and the bloodstains did not
match the blood type of the victim, thus
making the man innocent.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dr. Lattes’s forensic blood-typing cases.
(2011, April 8). In Forensic Science.
Retrieved September 4, 2012, from
http://csi-forensicscience.blogspot.com/2011/04/drlattess-forensic-blood-typing-cases.html
 Forensic science. (n.d.). In Baltimore County
Public Schools. Retrieved September 4,
2012, from
http://www.bcps.org/offices/science/se
condary/forensic/Forensic%20Science%
20Intro.pdf
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