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History of Forensics

Early Chinese

246 BCE

Early Chinese used fingerprints on clay tablets.

Marcello Malpighi

1600s

Carl Willhelm Scheele

1700s

Valentin Ross

1800s

Discovered arsonic was deadly to the body.

He founded science of microscopic anatomy.

Developed a way to detect small amounts of arsonic in the body.

William Nichol

1828

Mathieu Orfilla

1813

James Marsh

1836

Invented polarizing light microscope.

Founder of Toxicology.

Invented Marsh test the easiest way to detect arsenic in the body.

Alphonse Bertillion

1883

Hans Gross

1891

Dr. Karl Landsteiner

1901

Applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements.

Discovered the four human blood groups.

Gross adapted some fields to the needs of criminal investigation, such as crime scene photography. In 1912, he founded the Institute of Criminalistics

Edmond Locard

1918

AlbertOsborn

1910

Dr. Leone Lattes

1901

Suggests twelve matching points as a positive fingerprint identification.

Published "Questioned Documents"

Discovered that blood can be grouped into different categories.

Sir Alec Jeffreys

1984

Col. Calvin Goddard

1920

Dr. Walter McCrone

1977

Discovers a method of indentifying individual DNA.

Famous for work on chemical microscopic.

Perfect microscopic bullet composition.

Frye Standard

1993

A test to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence.

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