Forensics timeline

  • 13th century china
    1201

    13th century china

    Someone was stabbed so they took all the knives and laid them out and which ever one the flies flew to was the one used in the killing
  • Mathieu Orfila

    Mathieu Orfila

    the father of forensic toxicology because he texted poisons on animals to study the effects
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    used thumbprints to document workers in India
  • Alphonse Bertillon

    Alphonse Bertillon

    father of criminal identification. developed anthropometry which used body measurements to distinguish individuals
  • Henry Faulds

    Henry Faulds

    used fingerprints to prove the innocence of a burglar
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    published his first sherlock holmes story; considered the first CSI featured in 4 novels and 56 short stories, popularized scientific crime-detection methods
  • Francis Galton

    Francis Galton

    published fingerprints. conducted the first definitive study of fingerprints and their classification. gave proof of their uniqueness.
  • Hans Gross

    Hans Gross

    wrote the first paper describing the application of scientific principles to the field of criminal investigation. Published Criminal Investigation
  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner

    Discovered the ABO blood groups, later received Nobel Prize
  • Edmond Locard

    Edmond Locard

    incorporated Gross' principles within a workable crime lab; became the founder and director of the institute of criminalistics at the university of Lyons,France.
  • Albert S. Osborn

    Albert S. Osborn

    published Questioned Documents. developed the fundamental principles of document examination
  • Leone lattes

    Leone lattes

    Developed a method for determining blood type from dried blood.
  • August Vollmer

    August Vollmer

    Established first crime lab in the united states, located in LA
  • Calvin Goddard

    Calvin Goddard

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