Forensic Science History By Mandujano Sep 27, 700 Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures Sep 27, 1000 Roman courts determined that bloody palm prints were used to frame a man in his brother’s murder Sep 27, 1149 King Richard of England introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable death Sep 27, 1200 A murder in China is solved when flies were attracted to invisible blood residue on a sword of a man in the community Sep 27, 1598 Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy Sep 27, 1670 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek constructed the first high-powered microscope Sep 27, 1784 John Toms convicted of murder on basis of torn edge of wad of paper in pistol matching a piece of paper in his pocket Sep 27, 1859 Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy. Sep 27, 1864 Crime scene photography developed Sep 27, 1879 Alphonse Bertillon developed a system to identify people using particular body measurements Sep 27, 1896 Edward Henry developed first classification system for fingerprint identification Sep 27, 1900 Karl Landsteiner identified human blood groups Sep 27, 1904 Edmond Locard formulated his famous principle, “Every contact leaves a trace.” Sep 27, 1922 Francis Aston developed the mass spectrometer. Sep 27, 1959 James Watson and Francis Crick discover the DNA double helix Sep 27, 1977 AFIS developed by FBI Sep 27, 1984 effreys developed and used first DNA tests to be applied to a criminal case
