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History Of Forensics Timeline
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Mathieu Orfila
Orfila is known as "the father of toxicology". He worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Bertillon thought it would be smart to photograph crime scenes and evidence. he also thought of a method using measurements to identify people. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Doyle is the author of the Sherlock Holmes books. He himself was not a forensic scientist but these stories he created were considered the first "CSI" -
Francis Galton
Galton discovered finferprints as a reliable source for human identification -
Leone Lattes
Lattes published a paper descibing the modern method of categorizing blood groups. He developed a method called the antibody method test which assigned samples to each of the major blood types. -
Albert Osborn
Osborn was known as the father of science. He published a book titled "Questioned Documents" in 1910, later a second version was published in 1929 heavily revising the information and adding onto missing information from the first book. -
Edmond Locard
Locard was known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace" -
Calvin Goddard
Goddard created a comparison microscope to study bullets and research if they were from the same gun or figure out which gun they were from.
