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13th Century China
The first crime solved with forensic science was in China during the medieval days. A murder was solved using insect evidence.In this case, flies swarmed the murderer's tool because they could sense blood and tissue that was invisible to the human eye. -
Mathieu Orfila
Mathieu Orfila is called the "Father of Toxicology" because of his contribution to forensic medicine. He made chemical analysis a routine component in forensic medicine, and he also made many useful studies, such as asphyxiation. -
William Herschel
Used thumbprints on documents to identify people in India. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon is considered the "Father of Criminal Identification". He developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
Henry Faulds used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story. These led to the popularization of scientific crime-detection methods. -
Francis Galton
Francis Galton conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. This gave proof to the uniqueness of them. -
Hans Gross
Hans Gross wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner discovered the ABO blood groups and received a Nobel Prize. -
Edmond Locard
Edmond Locard incorporated Gross' principles in a crime lab. -
Albert S. Osborn
Albert S. Osborn developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leone Lattes
Leone Lattes developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
August Vollmer established the first crime lab in the United States which is located in Los Angeles, California. -
Calvin Goddard
Calvin Goddard developed a comparison microscope, and it was the first used to compare bullets to see if they were fired from the same weapon.
