History Of Forensic Science

By julia13
  • Reporting Cases

    first pathology reports published
  • Scheele

    1st to detect arsenic in a corpse
  • Physical Evidence

    physical matching of evidence leading to a murder conviction
  • Orfila

    Father of Toxicology
  • Testing Blood

    1853-1863 Test for blood was developed, able to determine if the blood is animal or human, and identifying individual suspects.
  • Bertillon

    Identify individuals based on body measurements, as well as the father criminal identification.
  • Finger Prints

    finger prints found to be unique. Faulds and Herschel wrote the first paper describing the uniqueness of prints. Galton created classification patters.
  • Alphonse Bertillon

    Criminal feature reduces to numerical measure, system using various of measurements of physical feature and bones.
  • Blood Markers

    Investigated into blood markers, blood groups A,B,O was discovered by Landsteiner and adapted for use on bloodstains by dieter max Richter
  • Learning about Forensics

    First school to be found was in Switzerland by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss
  • Crime Labs

    First police crime labs established in Los Angeles, CA
  • Expert Labs

    Crime experts build labs, FBI establishes its own crime laboratory, now one of the foremost crime labs in the world.
  • DNA

    1950-1990 DNA profiling, determining individuals DNA characteristics which are a unique as fingerprints.
  • DNA Evidence Certified

    National Academy of Sciences announces DNA evidence is reliable.