Intro to FS People

Henry Lee

Founder of the Institute of Forensic Science, affiliated with the University of New Haven

Kary Mullis

invented polymerase chain reaction technique

Sir Edward Henry

created a system of fingerprinting which classified fingerprints as loops, arches, and whorls

Sir Francis Galton

discovered and established fingerprinting uniqueness as a form of identification

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Author of Sherlock Holmes

Leone Lattes

devised a procedure by which dried bloodstains could be grouped as A, B, AB or O

Albert Osborn

Father of Questioned Documents

William West

Inspired change in the way prisoners were classified

Alphonse Bertillon

Created the first system of physical measurements, photography, and record-keeping that police could use to identify criminals

Mathieu Orfila

Father of toxicology

Calvin Goddard

Created the comparison microscope to help determine which bullets came from which shell casings

Julius Caesar

History's first recorded application of medical knowledge to a homicide investigation

Edmond Locard

Formulated basic principle of forensic science: every contact leaves a trace

Sir Alec Jeffreys

Developed the technique of DNA fingerprinting

Eduard Piotrowski

Developed study of blood spatter

Walter Specht

Developed the luminol test for invisible blood stains

John E. Douglas

Pioneered the study and practice of criminal profiling

Karl Landsteiner

Classified the bloods of human beings into the now well-known A, B, AB, and O groups

John Larson

Invented modern polygraph used in forensic investigations

Oscar Amoedo

Father of forensic odontology

Clea Koff

Discovered methods to find specific characteristics of an individual that can be revealed through skeletal structure

Hans Gross

first to apply scientific method/investigation to the field of forensic science

J. Edgar Hoover

established the fingerprint database - a collection of all the fingerprint files of incarcerated individuals