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1200
13th century China
First ever recorded case with forensics. A murder happened, and all the knives were gathered up in town, and flies all went to the knife of the killer, who ended up confessing. -
Mathieu Orfila
Called the father of Forensic Toxicology because he was the first to publish a research paper on the detection of poisons. -
William Herschel
He used thumbprints on documents. He did this to identify workers in India. -
Alphonse Bertillion
The "father of criminal identification." He developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
He used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He wrote the first "Sherlock Holmes" which is considered the first "CSI" novel. He writes many more later. -
Francis Galton
He conducted the first study of finger prints and proved that each one is unique. -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of crime. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO blood groups, and later revived a Nobel Prize. -
Edmond Locard
Used Gross's principles to work within a crime la and became the founder of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lynos in France. -
Albert S. Osborn
Developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leone Lattes
Developed a method for determining blood types from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
Established the first crime lab in the United States in Los Angeles. -
Calvin Goddard
Developed the first comparison microscope and was the first compare bullets fried from different guns.
