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They used insects to figure out which knife was used in the crime
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Known as the “father of Toxicology.” The first great 19th-century exponent of forensic medicine. After a failed attempt to set up chemistry professorships in medical colleges in Spain, he returned to France.
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Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India
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Father of Criminal Identification and developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals
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Used Fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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Published his first Sherlock Holmes story, this was considered the first, "CSI", featured in four novels and 56 short stories. He got popular of his scientific crime-scene method.
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Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification in which he gave proof with uniqueness.
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Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. later on published Criminal Investigation.
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He discovered that there is ABO blood groups. Later he then received a Nobel Prize
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Incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab and became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France
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He published questioned documents and developed the fundamental principles of document examination.
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He developed a method that determines blood type from dried blood.
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Made the first Crime Lab in the United States. Which was located in Los Angeles.
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He developed a comparison microscope, this was first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon
