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Mathieu Orfila
He published the treatise on the detection of poisons which could determine if somone was murdered by poison. -
Alphonse bertillion
Bertillonage system- identified individuals by measurements of the head and body, shape formations of ear, eyebrow, mouth and eye. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
novels contain first used of serology, ballistics, fingerprinting and document analysis in a crime scene situation which was soon encouraged in the real world -
Francis Galton
Developed a reliable system of recording and identifying fingerprints -
Hans Gross
published the first treatise on applying science to criminal investigation, made a forensic journal -
Edmund Locard
He opened up the first running Forensics Lab in France and is famous for "Locard's Exchange Principle" which means that every exchange between two subjects leaves a trace. -
Albert Osborn
Published the book "Questioned Documents", which was used as a reference for document examiners -
Leon Lattes
Leon Lattes devised a procedure which dried blood stains so that they could be classified by type. -
Calvin Goddard
Created the comparison microscope where two specimen can be observed, used it to analyze bullets and compare bulltets -
J. Edgar Hoover
established FBI's national fingerpring depositony and crime laboratory, fingerprint collection and national resource -
Walter McrCrone
Concluded that the world famous Turin Shroud was a medieval painting using microscopy techniques.
