Forensic Scientists

  • 13th Century China
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    13th Century China

    First case ever recorded all knives of the village collected flies were attracked to murder weapon person confessed.
  • Mathieu Orfila

    Mathieu Orfila

    father of toxicology first person to write a paper on how poisons work and their effect on animals
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    Used thumbprints on documents to identify workers in India.
  • Alphonse bertillon

    Alphonse bertillon

    Father of criminal identification. Develpoed anthropomety which uses body mesurments to identify people
  • henry faulds

    henry faulds

    Uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent burglary suspect
  • Sir Authur Conan Doyle

    Sir Authur Conan Doyle

    Published his first Sherlock Holmes story considered the first CSI featured in four novels and 56 short stories popularized scientific crime detection methods
  • Francis Galton

    Francis Galton

    Published Finger Prints conducted the first definitive study of finger prints and their classification gave proof of uniqueness
  • Hans Gross

    Hans Gross

    Wrote the first paper describing the application of scientfic principals to the feild of crimal investigation Published Criminal Investigation
  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner

    Discorverd the ABO blood groups later recived Nobel Prize
  • Albert S. Osborn

    Albert S. Osborn

    Published Questioned Documents developed a fundemental principals of document examination
  • Edmond Locard

    Edmond Locard

    incorporated Gross principals within a workable crime lab became the founder and director of the Insitute of Criminallists at the university of Lyons France
  • Leone Lattes

    Leone Lattes

    Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood
  • August Vollmar

    August Vollmar

    Established the First Crime Lab in the United States located in Los Angeles
  • Calvin Goddard

    Calvin Goddard

    Developed a comparision microscope first used to compare bullets to see if fired from the same weapon