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History of Forensics Science
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Mathieu Orfila
Spanish toxicologist and chemist.
The founder of the science of toxicology. -
Alphonse Bertillon
French police officer and bio-metrics researcher
Created an identification system based on physical measurements. -
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer, who created the character Sherlock Holmes.
Published A Study in Scarlet (1st Sherlock Holmes Book) -
Francis Galton
English Victorian era statistician, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician
Known for his pioneering studies of human intelligence. -
Albert S. Osborn
The father of the science of questioned document examination in North America.
Wrote a book about questioned documents. -
Leone Lattes
Italian scientist who devised a procedure by which dried blood stains could be restored and grouped in the blood type categories A, B, AB, or O -
Calvin Hooker Goddard
forensic scientist, army officer, academic, researcher and a pioneer in forensic ballistics.
Examined the bullet casings -
Edmond Locard
French criminalist renowned for being a pioneer in forensic science and criminology.
He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace"
