history of forensics

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  • 1200

    13th century China

    first case ever recorded using forensic science. someone was stabbed and all the knives and flies were attracted to the blood and landed on one causing suspect to confess

  • Mathieu Orfila

    chemist who published first scientific paper on the detection of poisons and there affect on animals- named the father of toxicology

  • William Herschel

    used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India

  • Alphonse Bertillon

    "father of criminal identification". developed anthropology which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals.

  • Henry Faulds

    uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect

  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    published first Sherlock Holmes story.

  • Francis Galton

    published finger prints. conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and there classification

  • Hans Gross

    wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation published criminal investigation.

  • Karl Landsteiner

    discovered the ABO blood groups, later received Nobel prize

  • Edmond Locard

    incorporated gross principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the institute of criminalistics at Lyons in France

  • albert osborn

    published question documents. developed the fundamental principles of document examination

  • Leone lattes

    developed method for determining blood type for dry blood

  • august vollmer

    established the first crime lab in united states in Los Angeles

  • gavin goddard

    comparison microscope