History of Forensics Timeline

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  • Mathieu Orfila

    Pioneered forensic toxicology

  • Alphonse Bertillon

    Applied anthropometry to crime solving.

  • Francis Galton

    Scientifically showed how fingerprints can be used to identify a person.

  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Created the character of sherlock holmes and popularized forensics.

  • Albert Osborn

    Published questioned documents.

  • Leone Lattes

    Devised a method for discerning the blood types taken from blood samples from a crime scene

  • Calvin Goddard

    Looked at the striations in a bullet to determine whether it was the one used to commit a crime.

  • Edmond Locard

    Formally established the basic scientific principle of forensics.