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13th Century China
They used insects to figure out which knife was used in the crime -
Matheiu Orfila
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. -
William Herschel
Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillon
Father of Criminal Identification and developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals -
Henry Faulds
Used Fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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. -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification in which he gave proof with uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. later on published Criminal Investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
He discovered that there is ABO blood groups. Later he then received a Nobel Prize -
Edmond Locard
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 -
Albert S.Osborn
He published questioned documents and developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leone Lattes
He developed a method that determines blood type from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
Made the first Crime Lab in the United States. Which was located in Los Angeles. -
Calvin Goddard
He developed a comparison microscope, this was first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon
