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13th Century China
The first care ever recorded using forensic science was in china. There was a murder and the group of workers took all the knives in the town and put them together, One flies had flies coming/On it, This is how they found out who the suspect was. -
Mathieu Orfila
Orfila worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation -
William Herchel
William Herchel used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Father of Criminal Identification. Developed Anthropometry which uses Boyd measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
Uses Fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Published his first Sherlock homes story; Considered the "CSI" feature in four novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods. -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification, Gave proof of their uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. published criminal investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO Blood groups, later received Nobel price. -
Emond Locard
Incorprated Gross' Principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the institute of criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France -
Albert S. Osborn
Published Questined Documents. Developed the fundament principles of document examintaion. -
Leone Lattes
Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood -
August Vollmer
Established the first crime lab in the united states, located in Los angles. -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if ford from the same weapon
