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1247
13th Century China
The Washing Away of Wrongs was written around 1247 CE. Sung Tz’u wrote this text to help bureaucrats of the Southern Sung Dynasty navigate the complex inquest process, provide instructions on how examine a corpse, and determine cause of death. https://www.google.com/amp/s/strangeremains.com/2016/01/16/a-13th-century-guide-to-forensic-anthropology/amp/ -
Mathieu Orfila
Mathieu was the first great 19th-century exponent of forensic medicine. He worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation. -
William Herschel
British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification on contracts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Herschel,_2nd_Baronet -
Alphonse Bertillon
applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. -
Henry Flauds
Henry Faulds is credited as the first person to suggest the potential of fingerprint use in forensic work. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. -
Francis Galton
The pioneer in fingerprint identification was Sir Francis Galton, He was the first to show scientifically how fingerprints could be used to identify individuals. -
Hans Gross
Hans Gross was an criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl discovered human blood groups in 1900 and laid the foundation for the modern medical practice of blood transfusion. He considered it an accidental discovery. -
Edmond Locard
Locard the pioneer in forensic science, he formulated the basic principle of forensic science -
Albert S Osborn
Albert was the father of the science of questioned document examination in North America. His seminal book Questioned Documents was first published in 1910 and later heavily revised as a second edition in 1929 -
Leone lattes
Leone was an italian scientist who devised a procedure by which dried blood stains could be restored and grouped in the blood type categories A, B, AB, or O. -
August Vollmar
The first police chief of Berkeley, California and a leading figure in the development of the field of criminal justice in the United States in the early 20th century. -
Calvin Goddard
Calvin was a forensic scientist, He examined the bullet casings in the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre and showed that the guns used were not police issued weapons, leading the investigators to conclude it was a mob hit.
