Learn: Key Pioneers in Forensic Science: Fingerprints, Blood, and Trace Evidence

Albert Osborne

developed the fundamental principles of document examination, influential document examiner

Francis Galton

created the first comprehensive book on fingerprints

Sir Edward Richard Henry

Developed the fingerprint classification system used

Leone Lattes

Created the ABO blood test

Alexandre Lacassagne

First to try to individualize bullets to a gun barrel

Arthur Conan Doyle

Published Sherlock Holmes stories

Henry Faulds

First to suggest fingerprints could be used to identify criminals

Rudolf Virchow

created hair analysis

Ludwig Teichman

First blood/hemoglobin test

James Marsh

First to use toxicology(arsenic test) in a jury trial

John Purkinje

Published the first paper on the nature of fingerprints and created a classification system based on the 9 major types

Alphonse Bertillon

Created the anthropometric way to identify someone

Mathiew Orfila (1814)

Father of toxicology

Edmond Locard

Every contact leaves a trace, hair, fiber, fingerprints, saliva, DNA

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

discovered how to test for arsenic in a body (not admissible in court)

Francois Demelle

1609 The first published essay on document
examination