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Jan 1, 1200
13th century China
This was the first ever event use of forensic science, this was when they collected all the knifes, by collecting and tracing blood on the knife for suspect to confess and it all happened when a man was stabbed in the back in China -
Matheiu Orfila
Father of Forensic toxicology, he also published first scientific paper on the detection of poisons and their effects on animals -
William Herschel
He used fingerprints to identify workers in India -
Alphonse Bertillion
Named " Father of Criminal Identification" Developed Anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals. -
Henry Faulds
He used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent suspect of robbery -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He wrote Sherlock Holmes, and he published his first, most popularized scientific crime detection methods -
Francis Galton
Conducted the first study of fingerprints and their classification and published "fingerprints". -
Hans Gross
Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of investigation published "criminal investigation" -
Karl Landsteiner
Developed modern classification of blood types, like ABO blood groups -
Edmon Locard
incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime laboratory -
Albert S Osborn
developed the fundamental principles of document examination -
Leone Lattes
Developed a methods for determination of blood type from dried blood -
August Vollmer
Established the first crime lab in the US in LA -
Calvin Goddard
used a comparison microscope to determine if a particular gun fired a bullets to see i fired the same weapon
