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Dec 31, 700
Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures
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Dec 31, 1149
King Richard of England introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable death
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Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy1670—Anton Van Leeuwenhoek constructed the first high-powered microscope
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Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy.
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Crime scene photography developed
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Alphonse Bertillon developed a system to identify people using particular body measurements
Alphonse Bertillon Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), the son of medical professor Louis Bertillon, was a French criminologist and anthropologist who created the first system of physical measurements, photography, and record-keeping that police could use to identify recidivist criminals. -
Edward Henry developed first classification system for fingerprint identification
Edward Henry Sir Edward Richard Henry, a British official stationed in India, began to develop a system of fingerprint identification for Indian criminals. (Henry created 1,024 primary fingerprint classifications.) In Argentina, Juan Vucetich, a police official, also used Galton's findings to create a fingerprint system. -
Edmond Locard formulated his famous principle, “Every contact leaves a trace.”
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AFIS developed by FBI, fully automated in 1996
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Jeffreys developed and used first DNA tests to be applied to a criminal case
Alec Jefferys use of genetic tests in forensics goes back a century to the discovery of blood typing. But it wasn’t until the development of the first DNA fingerprinting techniques by Alec Jeffreys in 1984
