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13th Century China
There was a stabbing and so they collected all the knives and when flies started getting attracted to one they got the suspect to confess -
Mathieu Orfila
The "father of toxicology" because he published a paper on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals -
William Herschel
Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillon
"Father of Criminal Identification" Developed Anthropomtry which uses body measurements to identify individuals -
Henry Faulds
Used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Published his first Sherlock Holmes story, considered the first "CSI" novel -
Francis Galton
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 the scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO blood groups, won a Nobel Prize -
Edmond Locard
Incorpoarted 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
Developed the fundamental principles of document identification -
Leone Lattes
Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood -
August Vollmer
Established the first crime lab in the US located in Los Angeles -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparison microscope, first to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon
