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Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified or the Washing Away of Wrongs is a Chinese book written by Song Chi in 1247 during the Song Dynasty (960-1276) as a handbook for coroners. It was the first ever case recorded using forensic science.
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Mathieu Orfila is known as the father of toxicology because he published the first scientific treatise on the detection of poisons and the effects on animals, a work that established forensic toxicology as a legitimate scientific endeavor.
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Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.
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Father of criminal identification. Developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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Uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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Published his first Sherlock Holmes story; Considered the first "CSI", featured in four novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime- detection methods.
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Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. Gave proof of their uniqueness.
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Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Published Criminal Investigation.
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Discovered the ABO blood groups, later recieved Nobel Prize.
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Incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France.
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Published Questioned Documents. 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 United States, location in Los Angeles.
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Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon.
