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Mathieu Orfila
Mathieu Orfila was a spanish toxicologist and chemist. He was the founder of the science of toxicology.He worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine. -
Sir Francis Galton
Sir Francis Galton was a pioneer in fingerprint identification. He was the first person to show scientifically how fingerprints could be used to identify individuals. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon was a police officer and bio metrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and has been credited as an influence to forensic science because of his character's use of methods such as fingerprints, serology, ciphers, trace evidence, and footprints long before they were commonly used by actual police forces. -
Leone Lattes
Leone Lattes was an Italian forensic scientist who worked as a researcher, in the early 20th century. In 1901, he published a paper describing the modern method of categorizing blood groups. He developed a method called the antibody method test which assigned samples to each of the major blood types. -
Albert Osborn
Albert Osborn is considered the father of the science of questioned document examination in North America. He authored question documents. -
Calvin Goddard
Calvin Goddard was a forensics scientist and a pioneer in forensic ballistics. He examined bullet the bullet casings in the St. Valentines Day massacre and showed that the guns used were not police guns. -
Edmond Locard
Edmond Locard was a forensics scientist known as the Sherlock Holmes of France. He formulated the basic principle of forensic science "every contact leaves a trace".
