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1248 BCE
Chinese Manuscripts
✧ The Chinese created a manuscript in the 3rd century China titles Yi Yu Ji (A Collection of Criminal Cases) which told coroners who performed an experiment that helped solve a case. ✧ The Chinese were the first to recognize fingerprinting as a way of identification. -
Mathieu Orfila - The Father of Forensic Toxicology
✾ In 1814, Matthieu was he famously perfected techniques to test for Arsenic, a common poison used for murder in his time. -
Alphonse Bertillon - Creator of Anthropometry
✥ Bertillon began his police career on 15 March 1879 as a department copyist. ✥ Alphonse Bertillon was titled " The Father of Criminal Identification ". He was famous for his development of Anthropometry, the practice of body measurements for identification. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Author of Sherlock Holmes Story
❀ Doyle was a writer and in 1887 he published the first Sherlock Holmes story. ❀ The detective stories popularized many aspects of forensics. -
Francis Galton - Fingerprints
❈ Galton's research provided a breakthrough for forensics application in law enforcement and investigation. His book " FingerPrints " provided proof of the uniqueness of fingerprints. -
Hans Gross
✧ Gross fully introduced the concept of criminalistics in 1893, a period in which the notion of criminology expanded. ✧ Hans published the scientific paper Criminal Investigation, which described and advocated for the use of scientific principles in the field of criminal investigation. Introduced the application of scientific disciplines to criminal investigations. -
Karl Landsteiner
⁑ In 1900 Karl Landsteiner found out that the blood of two people under contact agglutinates. ⁑ In 1901, Karl succeeded in identifying that this effect was due to contact of blood with blood serum. As a result, he succeeded in identifying the three blood groups A, B and O, which he labelled C, of human blood. -
Edmond Locard
❂ In 1910, Edmond took Gross' advice and applied scientific principles in a crime lab. His success led him to later become the founder and director of the Institute of Criminalistics at the University of Lyons, France. -
Leon Lattes
✵ Leone Lattes was an italian scientist who devised a procedure by which dried blood stains could be restored and grouped in the blood type categories. ✵ Developed a method to distinguish blood type from dried blood samples, in 1915. -
August Vollmer
✱ Established the first ever crime lab in the United States, located in Los Angeles. He was the first chief to require that police officers attain college degrees, and persuaded the University of California to teach criminal justice. ✱ In 1916, UC Berkeley established a criminal justice program, headed by Vollmer. -
Calvin Hooker Goddard
✺ In 1925, Calvin developed the comparison microscope. The microscope is able to view two samples at once, so you can easily compare two things. It was first used to compare bullet samples. -
Walter McCrone
✰ Walter McCrone was an American chemist, who was considered a leading expert in microscopy in 1960. he was best known for his work on the Shroud of Turin, the Vinland map, and Forensic science. -
Dr. Michael Baden - Forensic Pathology
❆ Michael Baden is an American physician and a board-certified forensic pathologist, in 1983 he was known for his work investigating high-profile cases. -
Alec Jeffreys
❅ Jefferys is a geneticist, and in 1984 his advances DNA research led him to discovering a method of showing variations between peoples DNA fingerprint.
