History of Forensics

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    He was the first to discover human blood groups and in 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize. He contunied work on the detection of blood, and the type forms of blood.
  • Oskar abd Rudolf Adler

    They developed a test for blood based on a bendzidine.
  • Georg Popp

    Georg Popp
    Popp was the first to use evidence in a criminal case for the first time.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Teddy est. the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • Albert S. Osborne

    Albert S. Osborne
    Was an American who published Questioned Documents.
  • J.J. Thompson

    J.J. Thompson
    Thomson is the first to build the spectrometer. It is used to identify materials.
  • Leone Lattes

    Lattes develops the first anitbody test for people who have ABO blood. He uses the test in a case to resolve a marital dispute.
  • Albert Schneider

    First uses a vacuum appartus to collect evidence from a case.
  • Charles E. Waite

    Charles E. Waite
    Waite is the first person to make data about weapons.
  • Luke May

    Luke May
    May was one of the first American criminalist.
  • John Larson & Leonard Keeler

    Both were the first to discover the polygraph. The polygraph is what is known as the lie detector test,
  • August Vollmer

    August Vollmer
    Was chief police officer in California and Los Angeles, and does the first US Police crime laboratory.
  • FBI

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation of crime laboratory is created.
  • American Academy of Forensic Science

    was created in Chicago Illinois, the AAFS begins publication of the Journal of Forensic Science.
  • Hungary

    Was the first country in to do research projects of lip prints.
  • inside an autopsy