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history of forensics
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Mathieu Orfila
Spanish toxicologist and chemist; the founder of the science of toxicology -
Francis Galton
was a statistician, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician; was knighted in 1909; produced over 340 papers and books -
Alphonse Bertillon
French police officer; biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements -
Albert Osborn
considered the father of the science of questioned document examination; first American prominent in the field of forgery detection; author of the seminal Questioned Documents -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer; created the character Sherlock Holmes; a physician; published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson -
Edmond Locard
French criminologist; the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France;" formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace" which became known as Locard's exchange principle -
Calvin Goddard
was a forensic scientist, army officer, academic, researcher and a pioneer in forensic ballistics -
Leone Lattes
developed a method to to apply blood testing to stains on fabrics and other materials; found out that you could group dried blood stains as A, B, AB or O by using saline solution to restore dried blood into its liquid form
