HOSA FS: People (isolated)

Mathieu Orfila

Founder of forensic toxicology, studied poisons and worked on the Marie Lafarge poisoning case

Sir Francis Galton

Developed the first classification system for fingerprints, published the book Fingerprints in 1892, and described the loop, arch, and whorl of fingerprint patterns

Hans Gross

A generalist who believed in diverse approaches to forensic science and published the first forensic science textbook, Criminal Investigations, in 1893

Victor Balthazard

Paris medical examiner who advanced fingerprint, firearm, and hair analysis ; showed that fingerprints are unique to the 10^60 and used photography to help identify bullets

Alphonse Bertillon

Developed anthropometry and was the first to solve a case using fingerprints

Edmond Locard

Established a forensic lab in Lyons, France, in 1910, founded the Locard Exchange Principle and focused on trace evidence

Calvin Goddard

Established the study of firearms evidence in the US, established a variety of police labs in the US and invented the comparison scope

Juan Vucetich

Began the first fingerprint files

Gilbert Thomas

Used fingerprints officially in the US for the first time

Henry Faulds

First to come up with a classification system based on fingerprints

Karl Landsteiner

Discovered that blood can be grouped into different types (ABO system) ; received Nobel Prize in medicine for this in 1930

Alec Jefferys

Geneticist who developed DNA testing

Colin Pitchfork

The first criminal convicted by DNA evidence

William Hershel

The first to use fingerprinting as a method of identification