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.