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1201
13th century china
Someone was stabbed so they took all the knives and laid them out and which ever one the flies flew to was the one used in the killing -
Mathieu Orfila
the father of forensic toxicology because he texted poisons on animals to study the effects -
William Herschel
used thumbprints to document workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillon
father of criminal identification. developed anthropometry which used body measurements to distinguish individuals -
Henry Faulds
used fingerprints to prove the innocence of a burglar -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
published his first sherlock holmes story; considered the first CSI featured in 4 novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods -
Francis Galton
published fingerprints. conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. gave proof of their uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Published Criminal Investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the ABO blood groups, later received 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 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
