Forensic Science

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    13th Century China

    13th Century China
    The first case ever recorded using forensic science.
    The case was about someone that got stabbed in the rice fields. The investigators went around the village and collected everyone's knives. Since flies are attracted to traces of blood, they only landed on one of the knives which caused the suspect to confess.

  • Mathieu Orfila

    Mathieu Orfila
    He was considered the "Father of Toxicology" because he was one of the first people to use different forensic medicines and poisons on animals to show the effects of them.

  • William Herschel

    William Herschel
    Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.

  • Alphonse Bertillon

    Alphonse Bertillon
    He was the "Father of Criminal Identifications" and developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals.

  • Henry Frauds

    Henry Frauds
    Used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.

  • Sir Author Conan Doyle

    Sir Author Conan Doyle
    Published his first Sherlock Holmes story and is considered the first "CSI," featured in four novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods.

  • Francis Galton

    Francis Galton
    Published the book "Finger Prints" and was the first to conduct the definitive study of fingerprints and their classification and also gave proof of uniqueness.

  • Hans Gross

    Hans Gross
    Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the first field of criminal investigations. He also published Criminal Investigations.

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    Discovered the ABO blood groups and later received a noble prize.

  • Edmond Locard

    Edmond Locard
    Incorporated Gross' principles within workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France.

  • Albert S. Osborn

    Albert S. Osborn
    Published Questioned Documents and 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, located in Los Angeles

  • Calvin Goddard

    Calvin Goddard
    Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon