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1400
13th Century China
First case ever recorded using forensic science. A stabbing occurred so they collected all the knives in the village and flies were attracted to only one of the knives because it had traces of blood on it. This led to a confession. -
Mathieu Orfila
He is known as the Father of Forensic Toxicology because he was the first to publish a paper of the detection of poisons and their effects on animals. -
William Herschel
He used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India. -
Alphonse Bertillon
He is known as the Father of Criminal Identification because he developed a way to use body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
He used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He is the first CSI novelist. He wrote Sherlock Holmes. -
Francis Galton
He published a book on fingerprints and proved that all fingerprints are unique. -
Hans Gross
He wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
He discovered the ABO blood groups and later received a Nobel Prize. -
Edmond Locard
He incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab and became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics. -
Albert S. Osborn
He developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leone Lattes
He developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
He established the first crime lab in the United States in Los Angeles. -
Calvin Goddard
He developed a comparison microscope that was first used to compare bullets to see if they were fired from the same weapon.
