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The first crime solved with forensic science was in China during the medieval days. A murder was solved using insect evidence.In this case, flies swarmed the murderer's tool because they could sense blood and tissue that was invisible to the human eye.
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Mathieu Orfila is called the "Father of Toxicology" because of his contribution to forensic medicine. He made chemical analysis a routine component in forensic medicine, and he also made many useful studies, such as asphyxiation.
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Used thumbprints on documents to identify people in India.
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Alphonse Bertillon is considered the "Father of Criminal Identification". He developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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Henry Faulds used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first Sherlock Holmes story. These led to the popularization of scientific crime-detection methods.
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Francis Galton conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. This gave proof to the uniqueness of them.
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Hans Gross wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation.
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Karl Landsteiner discovered the ABO blood groups and received a Nobel Prize.
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Edmond Locard incorporated Gross' principles in a crime lab.
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Albert S. Osborn developed the fundamental principles of document examination.
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Leone Lattes developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood.
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August Vollmer established the first crime lab in the United States which is located in Los Angeles, California.
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Calvin Goddard developed a comparison microscope, and it was the first used to compare bullets to see if they were fired from the same weapon.
