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Jan 12, 1247
Sung Tzu
Sung Tzu was a Judicial Intendant who lived in China in the late 13th century and wrote a book entitled Washing Away of Wrongs. His book was a guide for other investigators so they could assess the scene of the crime effectively. His book has contributed to the fundamentals for modern forensic entomologists and is the first recorded account in history of someone using forensic entomology for judicial means. -
Anton Van Leewenhoek
Leewenhoek had many contirbutions including his work on the improvement of the microscope and for his contributions towards the establishment of microbiology. His inventions include more than 500 optical lenses and at least 25 microscopes. -
Mathieu Orfila
Orfila is known as the father of toxicology and worked to improve public health. He had lots of medical trianing and was frequently called to act as a medical expert in widely publicized cases. -
Henry Goddard
Goddard was known as Scotland Yard's orginal bowstreet runner and was known for his contribtuion in bullet comparison. He was the first person to use physical analysis to connect a bullet to the murder weapon. Most of his work consisted of investigation burglaries. -
James Marsh
Marsh is known as the father of modern toxicology. His main contribution was the Marsh test created in 1840. The Marsh test is a highly sensitive method in the detection of the poison arsenic. -
Bergeret d'Arbois
He was a French doctor and known for the first to use insect succession to determine the postmortem interval of human remains. More specifically he used forensic enotmology to help solve crimes based off of evidence/insects collected. -
Alphonso Bertillon
He created the Bertillon System which is a way to document criminals based off of their physical traits. He is known as the father of criminal identification and used his system to point out criminals throughout the criminal system. -
Alexandre Lacassange
Lacassange is known as the founder of modern forensics. His contributions include identifying -
Karl Landsteiner
Landsteiner was an Austrian biologist and physician. His contributions include having the first distinguished main blood groups, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups by identifying the presence of agglutinins in the blood. -
Paul Uhlenhulth
He is most widely known for creating the precipitin which determines whether blood samples found are animal or human. It was created to compare blood samples and has been a great contribution to forensics. -
Edward Henry
~First System of Classifying Fingerprint
~Case: 61 year old stabbed; rescanned criminals print -
Mikhail Tswett
~Chromotraphy: transfer of componets
~Case: head gas; reveals presents of alcohol/drugs -
Edmond Locard
Dr Edmond Locard was a French criminalist rknown for being a pioneer in forensic science and criminology, He was also said to be the Sherlock Holmes of France.Locard even worked as the assistant of Dr Alexandre Lacassagne.He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace" which is known as Locard's exchange principle. -
Victor Balthazard
Balthazard used photographic enlargements of bullets and cartridge cases to determining weapon type and was among the first to attempt to individualize a bullet to a weapon. -
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a fiction writer who is famous for his novels involving Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. He invented the Sherlock Holmes method which helped identify cases using reduction/deduction to solve cases. -
John Larsen
~Credited with modern telegraph
~Lie detector>defects how much anxiety is given off
~Case: John James Holmes Case-Aurora Shooting; Narum Aneletic Interview -
Luke May
May started his first detective service at the age of 17 and gecame known as America's Sherlock Holme's. He invented the valor scope?? in 1922 which is used for comparing detail. -
Mikhail Gerasimov
Mikhail developed the first technique for forensic sculpture aka anthropology. In 1924 he studied forensic sculptures, facial features, and skulls of dead people. On top of that he also could reconstuct bones. -
J Edgar Hoover
J Edgar Hoover is a well known man who was the first director of the FBI and contributed to the foundation of the FBI. He was director from 1924 till his death in 1972, but the FBI wasn't officaly founded untill 1935. -
Walter Specht
Walter Specth is a forensic scientists who introduced the luminol which detects blood splatter. Luminol is a special spray that contains luminol and hydrogen and can be sprayed at crime scenes. Luminol is known to work better on old blood. -
Albert Osborn
~identified different types of writing including handwriting.
~Developed the principles of examining documents
~Case: Lindenburg Trial-Testify for prostecution -
Cedric Keith Simpson
Cedric Keith Simpson was a patholigist who was credited with the discovery of odentology. He would use forensic dentistry to determine murders, crimes, etc and was also a part of the association of forensic medicine. -
Thomas Mocker & Thomas Stewart
Mocker and Stewart identified skeletal growth stages, which is the basis of Forensic Antropology. -
Lawrence Kersta
~Helped w/voice prints
~Invented Spectograms
~Helped determined Voice Prints
~Case: Guy murdering a young woman; Case used phone call to determine murder -
William M. Bass
~founding the research system
~body farm
~Case: prove whether or not which victim was the cause of the shooting -
Alec Jefferys
Jefferys developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling. This allows police detectives to match DNA from crime scenes and opened up new approaches to forensic DNA testing. -
Henry Lee
Lee is currently the Chief Emeritus for Scientific Services and is known for his contribution to the OJ Simpson trials. In the OJ Simpson trials he noticed the difference in pictures during investigation and theat items had ben moved, He has also reinvestigated the Kennedy assasination as well as study blood splatter analysis.
