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Sep 30, 700
Chinese Fingerprints
Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures -
Sep 30, 1000
Roman Courts
Roman courts determined that bloody palm prints were used to frame a man in his brother’s murder. -
Sep 30, 1149
King Richard
King Richard of England introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable death. -
Sep 30, 1200
Murder in China
A murder in China is solved when flies were attracted to invisible blood residue on a sword of a man in the community -
Fidelus
Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek constructed the first high-powered microscope -
Paul Revere
Paul Revere identified the body of General Joseph Warren based on the false teeth he had made for him -
John Toms Convicted Of Murder
John Toms convicted of murder on basis of torn edge of wad of paper in pistol matching a piece of paper in his pocket -
Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen
Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy. -
Devolpment of Crime scene
Crime scene photography developed -
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon developed a system to identify people using particular body measurements -
Edward Henny
Edward Henry developed first classification system for fingerprint identification -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner identified human blood groups. -
Edmond Locard And His Fame
Edmond Locard formulated his famous principle, “Every contact leaves a trace.” -
Francis' Mass Spectrometer
Francis Aston developed the mass spectrometer. -
James Watson and Francis Crick Discovery
James Watson and Francis Crick discover the DNA double helix -
FBI devolopment
AFIS developed by FBI, fully automated in 1996. -
Jeffrey's Devolopment and DNA Tests
Jeffreys developed and used first DNA tests to be applied to a criminal case.
