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First ever recorded case with forensics. A murder happened, and all the knives were gathered up in town, and flies all went to the knife of the killer, who ended up confessing.
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Called the father of Forensic Toxicology because he was the first to publish a research paper on the detection of poisons.
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He used thumbprints on documents. He did this to identify workers in India.
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The "father of criminal identification." He developed anthropometry which uses body measurements to distinguish individuals.
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He used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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He wrote the first "Sherlock Holmes" which is considered the first "CSI" novel. He writes many more later.
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He conducted the first study of finger prints and proved that each one is unique.
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Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of crime.
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Discovered the ABO blood groups, and later revived a Nobel Prize.
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Used Gross's principles to work within a crime la and became the founder of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lynos in France.
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Developed the fundamental principles of document examination.
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Developed a method for determining blood types from dried blood.
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Established the first crime lab in the United States in Los Angeles.
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Developed the first comparison microscope and was the first compare bullets fried from different guns.
