acquittal. Kirk's testimony embarrassed Samuel Gerber, a senior member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) who was working for the prosecution and believed in Sheppard's guilt. Kirk was denied AAFS membership, but he still left his mark on the organization. The highest honor awarded in the criminalistics section of the AAFS is the Paul L. Kirk Award. Dr. Kirk's photographs, analysis, and testimony from the Sam Sheppard case can be seen at http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/kirk_photos/index.2.html. Bibliography Not only did Kirk publish around 250 articles in multiple fields of research ranging from biochemistry to criminalistics; he also contributed articles to the Encyclopædia Britannica and he was the author of the following books. Quantitative Ultramicroanalysis (1950) Density and Refrective Index: Their Applications in Criminal Identification (1951) Crime Investigation: Physical Evidence and the Police Laboratory Interscience (1953) Fire Investigation (1969) The Crime Laboratory (1965), co-written with Lowell W. Bradford References 1902 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American chemists American criminologists American forensic scientists Manhattan Project people People from Colorado Springs, Colorado University of Pittsburgh alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni