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13th Century China
The first ever found case of forensics. -
Mathieu Orfila
Helped to develop tests for the presence of blood in a forensic context and is one of the first people to use a microscope to assess blood and semen stains. -
WIlliam Herschel
Used thumbprints on documents on people. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Father of Criminal Identification and used anthropometry which uses body measurements to identify people. -
Henry Faulds
Used fingerprints to eliminate innocent suspects. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Published his first Sherlock Holmes story, and was considered the first CSI, and featured in four novels and 56 short stories, and popularized scientific crime-detection methods. -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification, and their uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
Wrote fist paper describing the application of scientific principles to the filed of criminal investigation, and published a book called criminal investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO blood groups, later received the Nobel Prize. -
Edmond Locard
Incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France -
Albert S. Osborn
Published Questioned Documents. Developed the fundamental principles of document examination. -
Leone Lattes
Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood. -
August Vollmer
Established the First Crime Lab in the United States, located in LA. -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon.
