Galen, a disciple of Hippocrates in ancient Greece, first performed autopsies for medical purposes
Jan 1, 1000
Quintilian, an attorney in the Roman courts, showed that bloody palm prints were meant to frame a blind man of his mother’s murder.
Jan 1, 1248
A Chinese book, Hsi Duan Yu (the washing away of wrongs), contains a description of how to distinguish drowning from strangulation. This was the first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of crime.
Marcello Malpighi , a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna, noted fingerprint characteristics. However, he made no mention of their value as a tool for individual identification.
Adolphe Quetelet , a Belgian statistician, provided the foundation for Bertillon’s work by stating his belief that no two human bodies were exactly alike.
Jean Servais Stas , a chemistry professorprofessor from Brussels, Belgium, was the first successfully to identify vegetable poisons in body tissue.
Odelbrecht first advocated the use of photography for the identification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and crime scenes.
The New York State Prison system began the first systematic use of fingerprints in United States for criminal identification.
Zoro and Hadley in the United Kingdom first evaluated GC-MS for forensic purposes
DNA profiling was introduced for the first time in a U.S. criminal court