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Thirteenth Century China
The first ever recorded case using forensic science was when people brought all the knives out to find out who stabbed the victim and used the flies to find the culprit, as they were still attracted to the traces of blood on the murder weapon. -
Mathieu Orfilia
This chemist published the first paper on the the observation of poisons and how they hurt animals and became known as the Father of Forensic Toxicology -
William Herschel
This man used thumbprints of Indian workers to identify them -
Alphonse Bertillion
Used the measurement of individual's bodies to tell them apart, now referred to as the, "Father of Criminal Identification." -
Henry Faulds
Fingerprints were used by this man to stop an innocent burglary suspect from paying for a crime they didn't commit. -
Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle
Author of "Sherlock Holmes" this man was the first one to make criminal investigation an enjoyable media in fiction. -
Francis Galton
Published a book with the first definitive study of fingerprints and how their uniqueness can be used in classification. -
Hans Gross
Wrote and published Criminal Investigation that described the application of science in criminal investigation. -
Karl Landsteiner
Won a Nobel prize for his discovery of A/B/O determining blood types -
Edmond Locard
Became the founder of the Institute of Criminalistics in France by incorporating Gross' principals in a somewhat workable crime lab -
Albert S. Osborn
Developed the principals of document examination by publishing Questioned Documents. -
Leone Lattes
Figured out how to get blood type off of dried blood. -
August Vollmer
Began the first crime lab within the United States in Los Angeles -
Calvin Goddard
Created a comparison microscope that was used to compare bullets to see if they were fired from the same gun.
