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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
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
Was an American who published Questioned Documents. -
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
Waite is the first person to make data about weapons. -
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
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