Historical People in Forensics

Developed a comparison microscope to compare bullets

• Calvin Goddard

• Edmond Locard

• Francis Galton

• Hans Gross

Developed a method to determine blood type of dried blood

• Leone Lattes

• Mathieu Orfila

• Karl Landsteiner

• William Herschel

Established the First Crime Lab in the United States in L.A.

• Albert S. Osborn

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• August Vollmer

"Father of Criminal Identification"; Developed science of Anthropometry

• Albert S. Osborn

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• August Vollmer

"Father of Forensic Toxicology"; chemist who studied the detection of poisons

• Karl Landsteiner

• Leone Lattes

• Mathieu Orfila

• William Herschel

Published Criminal Investigation to apply scientific principles to forensic science

• Edmond Locard

• Francis Galton

• Hans Gross

• Karl Landsteiner

Published Finger Prints about the uniqueness and classification of prints

• Edmond Locard

• Francis Galton

• Hans Gross

• Karl Landsteiner

Published Questioned Documents about document examination

• Albert S. Osborn

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• August Vollmer

Published Sherlock Holmes stories

• Alphonse Bertillon

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• August Vollmer

• Calvin Goddard

Received Nobel Prize for discovering the ABO Blood Types

• Karl Landsteiner

• Leone Lattes

• Mathieu Orfila

• William Herschel