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Eugéne François Vidocq
He introduced recorded keeping (index system) and was the first to make plaster-of-Paris, used to make foot/shoe impressions. He founded the first modern detective agency and credit burrow. -
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History of Criminalistics
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Mathiew Orfila
Known to be the “Father of Technology”, and founder of the science of toxicology. Orfila was very proficient in the chemistry of crime scene investigation and was an early promoter of chemical evidence in the courtroom. -
Henry Goddard
He had ideas about “feeble mindness” , was a prominent psychologist and engininst. The Kallikak family study was crucial to the momentum and popular dissmeination of eugenics. -
Sir William Herschel
He used fingerprints for identification on contacts. -
Henry Faulds
He observed that bloody fingerprints on obects can lead to scientific identification of criminals. -
Alphonse Bertillon
He developed anthropometry, which was a criminal identification system based off of measurements and size of the body and it’s individual markings, (scars and tattoos). He measured head length, head width, length of middle finger, length of left foot and the length of the arm form the elbow to the fingertip). -
Arthur Conan Doyle
He wrote the novel, “Astudy in Scarlet”, which was published in 1887. It was the first work of fiction to incorporate a magnifying glass as an investigative tool. He wrote Sherlock Holmes, which became one of the most well known detective book series. -
(Sir) Francis Galton
He determined the patterns that were on fingerprints ane noticed racial, permanent and individual differences shown in a new system, which was published in a novel called “Fingerprints”. -
Sir Edward Richard Henry
He developed a system of fingerprint classification which is used in Europe and North America. -
Rudolph Virchow
He was known for his cell theory, and extendede to state that the only source for a living cell was another living cell. -
Karl Landsteiner
discovered the infectious character of poliomyelitis and isolated the polio virus. He identified the three blood types (A, B and O), as well as blood transfusion. -
Albert S. Osborne
He made the seminal book, “Questioned Documents” and found the “American Society of Questioned Document Examiners”. -
Federal Bureau of Investigative (FBI)
The new crime laboratory was created. -
Max Frei-Sulzer
He developede the tape life method of collecting trace evidence. He also created the 1st Swiss Crime lab, the Zurich Police Scientfic Lab. -
Automated Fingerprint Identificiation System
The FBI introduced the beginnings of its Automated Fingerprint Identificiation System (AFIS) with the first computerized scans of fingerprints. -
(Sir) Alec Jeffreys
He developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science. -
NDIS
An FBI DNA database NDIS, enabling interstate cooperation in linking crimes, was put into practice.
