1201-1300 China

By Assefaj
  • 13th Century China
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    13th Century China

    The first care ever recorded using forensic science was in china. There was a murder and the group of workers took all the knives in the town and put them together, One flies had flies coming/On it, This is how they found out who the suspect was.
  • Mathieu Orfila

    Mathieu Orfila

    Orfila worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation
  • William Herchel

    William Herchel

    William Herchel used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.
  • Alphonse Bertillon

    Alphonse Bertillon

    Father of Criminal Identification. Developed Anthropometry which uses Boyd measurements to distinguish individuals.
  • Henry Faulds

    Henry Faulds

    Uses Fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Published his first Sherlock homes story; Considered the "CSI" feature in four novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods.
  • Francis Galton

    Francis Galton

    Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification, Gave proof of their uniqueness.
  • Hans Gross

    Hans Gross

    Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. published criminal investigation.
  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner

    Discovered the ABO Blood groups, later received Nobel price.
  • Emond Locard

    Emond Locard

    Incorprated Gross' Principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the institute of criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France
  • Albert S. Osborn

    Albert S. Osborn

    Published Questined Documents. Developed the fundament principles of document examintaion.
  • Leone Lattes

    Leone Lattes

    Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood
  • August Vollmer

    August Vollmer

    Established the first crime lab in the united states, located in Los angles.
  • Calvin Goddard

    Calvin Goddard

    Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if ford from the same weapon