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Period: 1200 to 1299
13th Century China
- First case ever recording using forensic science. Knives were collected in a village and flies were drawn to blood on the perpetrator's knife. They later confessed
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Mathieu Orfila
- "Father of Forensic Toxicology"
- Studied and published paper on effects of different poisons on animals
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William Orfila
-Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillon
- "Father of Criminal Identifications"
- Developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements
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Henry Fauld
- Used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Published Sherlock Holmes and considered the first "CSI".
- Featured in four novels and fifty-six short stories.
- Popularized scientific crime-detection methods.
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Francis Galton
- Published 'Finger Prints'
- Conducted first definitive study of fingerprints and their classifications
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Hans Gross
- Published 'Criminal Inestigation'
- Wrote the first paper describing application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation
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Karl Landsteiner
- Discovered the ABO Blood groups
- Later received Nobel Prize
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Edmond Locard
- Incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab
- Became founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France
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Albert S. Osborn
- Published 'Questioned Documents'
- Developed the fundamental principles of document examination
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Leone Lattes
- Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood
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August Vollmer
- Established the first crime lab in the United States located in L.A.
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Calvin Goddard
- Developed a comparison microscope used to compare things side by side
- First developed to compare bullets fired from different guns
