History of Forensics

  • DeForrest

    DeForrest
    Pioneers the first systematic use of fingerprints in the United States
  • R. Fischer

    R. Fischer furrows the red part of human lips which formed a basis for cheiloscopy
  • Popp

    Popp
    Georg Popp uses geological evidence in a case for the first time
  • Roosevelt establishes the FBI

    Roosevelt establishes the FBI
    Roosevelt establishes the FBI
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson builds the first mass spectrometer known as the hyperbola spectrograph
  • Locard

    Locard
    pictureLocard came up with his own principal.
  • Structure of DNA discovered

    Structure of DNA discovered
    Watson and Crick made model of DNA
  • Fiddes and Patten

    Fiddes and Patten write a paper on how someone can determine time from death based on cooling.
  • R.R. Race

    R.R. Race first describes the Kell blood group system