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The first ever found case of forensics.
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Helped to develop tests for the presence of blood in a forensic context and is one of the first people to use a microscope to assess blood and semen stains.
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Used thumbprints on documents on people.
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Father of Criminal Identification and used anthropometry which uses body measurements to identify people.
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Used fingerprints to eliminate innocent suspects.
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Published his first Sherlock Holmes story, and was considered the first CSI, and featured in four novels and 56 short stories, and popularized scientific crime-detection methods.
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Published Finger Prints. Conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification, and their uniqueness.
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Wrote fist paper describing the application of scientific principles to the filed of criminal investigation, and published a book called criminal investigation.
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Discovered the ABO blood groups, later received the 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 the United States, located in LA.
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Developed a comparison microscope; first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon.
