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1235 BCE
13th Century China
The first case ever recorded using Forensics Sciences: this is a case of a stabbing and they used different blades on animal carcasses to test which blade was the culprit. -
Mathieu Orfila
He was known as the Father of Forensic Toxicology because he was the publisher of the first scientific treatise on the detection of poisons and the effects on animals -
William Herschel
Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillon
He is known as the father of Criminal Identification. He also developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
Used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Published his first Sherlock Holmes Story and was considered the first “CSI” featured in 4 novels and 56 short stories. He also popularized scientific crime detection methods. -
Francis Galton
he published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and how they were classified and gave proof of their uniqueness. -
Hans Gross
He wrote the first text about teh application of the scientific principles to the criminal investigation. He also published Criminal Investigation -
Karl Landsteiner
Discover the ABO blood groups and later reliever the Nobel Prize. -
Edmond Locard
Included Gross’ principles in a crime lab and became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics in the University of Lyons in France -
Albert S. Osborn
He unlisted the Questioned Documents and developed the fundamental principles of document examination -
Leone Lattes
He founded a way to blood test to find what type of blood with dry blood. -
August Vollmer
He established the first Crime Lab in the US located in Los Angeles. -
Calvin Goddard
He discovered the first comparison microscope that was first use d to compare whether or not ballets came from the same weapon
