Forensic science

13th century China

Jan 1, 1300

Someone was stabbed and to find the person the police took all the knives then the knife with blood brought fly's and the suspect got nervous and then confessed.

Mathieu orfila

Jan 1, 1814

tested different poisons on animals.

William Herschel

Jan 1, 1856

First to use thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.

Alphonse Bertillon

Jan 1, 1879

Father of criminal identification. developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to identify.

Henry Flaulds

Jan 1, 1880

Used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Jan 1, 1887

published his first Sherlock Holmes story; considered the first CSI featured in four novels and 56 short stories.

Francis Galton

Jan 1, 1892

He conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their uniqueness.

Hans Gross

Jan 1, 1893

wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation.

Karl Landsteiner

Jan 1, 1901

Discoverd the ABO blood type groups.and later recived a Nobel Prize.

Albert S.osborn

Jan 1, 1910

published questioned documents developed the fundamental principles of document examination.

Edmond Locard

Jan 1, 1910

Incorporated Gross principles within a workable Crime lab and later became the founder and director of the institute of criminalistics.

Leon Lattes

Jan 1, 1915

developed a method for determining the type of blood when it is dry.

August Vollmer

Jan 1, 1923

Established the first crime lab in LA.

Calvin Goddard

Jan 1, 1925

Developed the first comparison microscope first used to compare bullets to see if they were fired from the same weapon.