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A case recorded in 13th Century showed that a bloodied knife was used as a murder weapon due to the fact that it was covered with flies after the murder.
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Orfila tested many poisons on animals, controversially, to figure out how they affect the human body
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Used the concept of thumbprints to keep tabs on workers in British India, and discovered that they were useful for identifcation
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Discovered Anthropometry, which is the study of using the measurements of people's bodies to prove their guiltiness or innocence
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The first person to clear someone of a crime by using their fingerprint to prove them innocent
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Not a forensic scientist, but responsible for bringing forensic science into the public eye by writing his "Sherlock Holmes" series
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Galton was the progenitor of modern fingerprint analysis with his study "Finger Prints," which proved that fingerprints were unique
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Published a paper called "Criminal Investigation," in which he revolutionized criminology by applying the scientific method to forensics
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Received a Nobel Prize for his work with human blood, due to his discovery of the ABO blood groups, but not the AB group
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Famously incorporated Gross's principles of scientific criminology in a laboratory, and eventually founded the Institute of Criminalistics in Lyons, France
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Published a thesis called "Questioned Documents." This led to the formal development of scientific document analysis
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Famously figured out how to determine blood type from dried blood, according to Landsteiner's principles
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Vollmer set up the first ever, official, American crime lab in LA, California
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Originally intended for comparing bullet size and ballistics, the first ever comparison microscope came from Goddard
