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1247
13th Century China
This was the first case ever recorded using forensic science -
Mathieu Orfila
He was considered "the father of toxicology" due to his published paper on the detection of posions and their effects on animals. -
William Herschel
Herschel was the one who used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillon
Bertillon was also known as "the father of criminal identification" and had developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals -
Henry Faulds
Faulds was the one who had used finderprint evidence to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Published his first Sherlock Holmes story which was considered the first "CSI" featured in four novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods -
Francis Galton
Published the book FInger Prints and had conducted the first defintive stidy of fingerprints and their classifcation and gave proof of their uniqueness -
Hans Gross
Gross wrote the first paper describing the application of scientifcic principles to the fields of criminal investigation and Published the book titled Criminal Investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Landteiner had dsicovered the ABO blood groups and had later received a nobel prize for it -
Albert S. Osborn
Published QUestioned Docuuments and develpped the fundametnal principles of document examination -
Edmond Locard
Locard had incorportated Gross' principles within of a workable crime lab and had become the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons. France -
Leone Lattes
Lattes had a discovered a way/method to determine the blood type based off dried blood samples -
August Vollmer
Vollmer established the First crime lab in the United States which is located in Los Angeles -
Calvin Goddard
Developed a comparison microscope which was first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon such as the bullet casings from the 1929 St.Valentines Day Massacre
