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The concept of forensic science was said to have originated in 13th century China. The Chinese used finger prints to identify documents and clay sculptures.
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Mathieu Orfila is considered the father of forensic toxicology. He worked to make the analysis of chemicals a part of forensic medicine.
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Sir William James Herschel was a British officer who used fingerprints for identification in India.
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Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who is considered the Father of criminal identification. He created an identification system that uses body measurements.
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Henry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary, and scientist who used fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an author and medical doctor who created the character Sherlock Holmes.
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Francis Galton was an English psychologist who's psychological studies embraced mental differences.
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Hans Gross was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist who is considered the father of criminal profiling. He wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Published Criminal Investigation.
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Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian biologist, physician, and immunologist who is responsible for distinguishing the main blood groups.
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Edmond Locard was a French criminologist who incorporated Gross’ principles within a workable crime lab and became the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France.
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Albert S. Osborn is considered the father of science of questioned document examination and published Questioned Documents.
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Leone Lattes was an Italian scientist who developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood.
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August Vollmer was the first police chief of Berkeley, California who established the First Crime Lab in United States, located in Los Angeles.
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Calvin Hooker Goddard was a forensic scientist, army officer, academic, researcher who developed a comparison microscope and the first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon.
