History of Forensic Science People

Ambrose Paré

French Barber and Surgeon; Father of surgery and forensic pathology

Francois-Emmanuel Fodéré

Father of Forensic Medicine

Mathieu B. Orfila

Published first treatise on detection of poisons

Alphonse Bertillon

Bertillonage Measurements

Alexandre Lacassange

First person to tie gun to bullet; Father of scientific detection

Francis Dalton

British; Father of Fingerprints

Hans Gross

Coined Criminalistics and is Father of Criminalistics

Eduard Piotrowski

Father of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

Edmund Locard

Every contact leaves a trace; Father of Forensics

George Popp

Forensic Botany and Geology

Albert Osborn

Father of Questioned Documents

Bernard Spilsbury

Created first crime scene kit (murder bag)

August Vollmer

First crime lab in 1923

Calvin Goddard

Father of Forensic Ballistics

Frances Glessner Lee

Mother of Forensic Science; tried to have coroner replaced

Walter C. McCrone

Father of Forensic Microscopy

Herbert Macdonell

Father of modern bloodstain analysis