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1235
China
A guy was stabbed and the village figured out the murder weapon by testing different blades on animal carcasses. -
Mathieu Orfila
He is considered the Father of Toxicology because he made chemical analysis a part of forensic medicine and studied the decomposition of bodies. -
William Herschel
He used thumbprints in India to identify workers -
Alphonse Bertillon
Considered the father of Criminal Identification and developed Anthropometry to use body measurements to differentiate people. -
Henry Faulda
He used fingerprints to figure out an innocent burglary suspect. -
Sir Authur Conan Doyle
Published Sherlock Holmes and considered the first CSI that was in four novels and 56 short readings popularizing scientific crime-detection methods. -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints and conducted the first study of fingerprints and their classification by giving proof of their uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
He wrote the first paper that described how the scientific principles apply to the field of criminal investigation; he then later published Criminal Investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the blood types and later received a Nobel prize. -
Edmond Locard
He used Gross’ principles within a workable crime lab, and became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France. -
Albert S. Osborn
He published Questioned Documents and developed the important principles of document examination -
Leone Lattes
They developed a way to determining blood type from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
Made the first crime lab in LA, California -
Calvin Goddard
Invented a comparison microscope, and was the first to compare bullets to see if they were fired by the same weapon.
