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1300
13th Century China
A person was stabbed and the town collected knives from everyone in the town. Flies flew to the knife with blood on it. -
Mathieu Orfila
He published the first scientific paper on the detection of poisons. -
William Herschel
He used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India. -
Alphonse Bertillon
He developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
He uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He published his first Sherlock Holmes story; considered the first CSI story. -
Francis Galton
He published the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. -
Hans Gross
Wrote the fist paper describing the application of the principles of science to the field of criminal investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
He discovered the ABO blood types. -
Edmond Locard
He became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France. -
Albert S. Osborn
He developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leon Lattes
He developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
He established the first crime lab in the US, in Los Angeles. -
Calvin Goddard
He developed a comparison microscope, first used to compare bullets.
