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1200
13th Century China
someone was stabbed and all of the knives in the village were collected and flies would fall on the ones that had blood -
Mathieu Orfila
"Father of forensics" he was the first scientist to public the first paper on how to detect poison and affects on animals -
William Herschel
used thumbprints to identify workers -
Alphonse Bertillon
"Father of criminal identification" used measurements to identify people -
Henry Faulds
used fingerprints to eliminate a suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
published Sherlock Holmes stories -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
discovered ABO blood groups -
Edmond Locard
founder and director of the Institute of Criminalizes and 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 the First Crime Lab in United States -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparison microscope it compared bullets to see if they fired from a matching gun -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints