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1325
13th Century China
A man was stabbed in a Chinese village and flies were attracted to the knife with the blood on it which led to the killer being found -
Mathieu Orfila
Orfila is considered the "father of toxicology" because he published the first scientific treatise on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals. This work established forensic toxicology as a legit science endeavor -
William Herschel
Herschel was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification on contracts -
Alphonse Bertillon
A French police officer and biometrics researcher who used anthropometry, creating an identification system based on physical measurements. -
Henry Faulds
developed fingerprinting -
Sir Arthor Conon Doyle
He published Sherlock Holmes and considered the first "CSI" -
Francis Galton
gave proof that fingerprints are specific to each individual -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered blood types ABO -
Edmond Locard
incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab -
Albert S. Osborn
developed the fundamental principles of document examination -
Leone Lattes
developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood -
August Vollmer
established first crime lab in united states -
Calvin goddard
developed a comparison microscope
