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1200
13th century China
This was the first case in forensics science. A women was just murdered and nobody wanted to confess. So the scientist collected every single knife in the village and laid them all outside. since, flies are attracted to blood they would be attracted to the knife that killed her. This made the person the confess almost immediately -
Mathieu Orfilia
He was the first toxicologist he wrote a academic paper on poisons and how they would effect mammals body. he paved the way for what we know today on toxicology. -
William Hershcel
He used thumbprints to document his workers he knew that these thumbprints were very individual and couldn't be replicated. -
Alphonse Bertillon
He has been dubbed the father of criminal identification because he found a way to use body measurements to identify people. -
Henry Fauld
He was the first to actually use fingerprints in a court case to eliminate a burglary suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He published his first Sherlock Holmes story and considered the first "CSI" which popularized the forensic sciences. -
Francis Galton
Did the first actual study on fingerprints and classified them in this classification he proved that fingerprints are completely unique. -
Hans Gross
wrote first paper on scientific principles to the feild of criminal investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
He discovered ABO blood types groups, later received Nobel prize -
Edmond Locard
incorporated Gross' principles into an actual crime lab became the founder and director of the crime institution in Lyons, France -
Albert S. Osborn
developed the fundamental principles of document examination -
Leone Lattes
developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood -
August Vollmer
established the first crime lab in the United States -
Calvin Goddard
developed a comparison microscope
