History of Forensics

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    pictureHe first Dicovered each blood types.
    He recieved a nobal peace prize in 1930.
  • Sir Edward Richard Henry

    Sir Edward Richard Henry
    He adopted the fingerprint identification.
    He replaced anthropemetry.
  • Professor R.A. reiss

    He was the professor at University of Lausanne
    He sets up one of the first academic curricula in forensic science.
    His forensic photography turned into a police acedemy in Lausanne.
  • Edmond Locard

    Edmond Locard
    In a trial, he demonstrated poroscopy in the trial of Boudet and Simonin
  • Victor Balthazard

    Victor Balthazard
    He was the professor of forensic medice ant the college of Sorbonne. He published the first article about bullet markings.
  • Albert SCHNEIDER

    Albert SCHNEIDER
    first to use a vaccume to trace evidence
  • Georg Popp

    Georg Popp
    he found the use of botanical identification in forensic work.
  • John Larsen

    John Larsen
    he combined the measurements of blood pressure, pulse and respiration
  • Schuller

    suggested sinuses can be used for investigations
  • Charles E. WAITE

    first to dect the differences between bullets when investigating
  • August Vollmer

    has the first u.s crim territory
  • M. POLONOVSKI

    first to identify habtoglobin
  • A.S. WIENER

    fitst to discover blood types
  • Mourant

    first to describe the Lewis blood system
  • Roche Molecular Systems

    releases a set of five DNA markers