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This was the first case in forensics science. A women was just murdered and nobody wanted to confess. So the scientist collected every single knife in the village and laid them all outside. since, flies are attracted to blood they would be attracted to the knife that killed her. This made the person the confess almost immediately
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He was the first toxicologist he wrote a academic paper on poisons and how they would effect mammals body. he paved the way for what we know today on toxicology.
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He used thumbprints to document his workers he knew that these thumbprints were very individual and couldn't be replicated.
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He has been dubbed the father of criminal identification because he found a way to use body measurements to identify people.
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He was the first to actually use fingerprints in a court case to eliminate a burglary suspect
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He published his first Sherlock Holmes story and considered the first "CSI" which popularized the forensic sciences.
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Did the first actual study on fingerprints and classified them in this classification he proved that fingerprints are completely unique.
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wrote first paper on scientific principles to the feild of criminal investigation
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He discovered ABO blood types groups, later received Nobel prize
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incorporated Gross' principles into an actual crime lab became the founder and director of the crime institution in Lyons, France
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developed the fundamental principles of document examination
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developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood
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established the first crime lab in the United States
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developed a comparison microscope
