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History of Forensics
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Mathieu Orfila
Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. -
Francis Galton
The pioneer in fingerprint identification was Sir Francis Galton, an anthropologist by training, who was the first to show scientifically how fingerprints could be used to identify individuals. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, has long been credited as an influence to forensic science due to 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. -
Albert Osborn
Albert Sherman Osborn is considered the father of the science of questioned document examination in North America. His seminal book Questioned Documents was first published in 1910 and later heavily revised as a second edition in 1929. -
Edmond Locard
Doctor Edmond Locard was a forensic scientist, popularly regarded as the “Sherlock Holmes of France”. -
Leone Lattes
An italian scientist who devised a procedure by which dried blood stains could be restored and grouped in the blood type categories A, B, AB, or O. -
Calvin Goddard
Pioneer in (firearms) look at the bullet casing in crime
