History of forensics

First to apply medical knowledge to crime solving.

perhaps the first book on forensics, is published. It offers some advice that is still useful today, including tips on identifying cases of strangulation from damaged neck cartilage.

Antoine Louis was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist.

He was originally trained in medicine by his father, a surgeon-major at a local military hospital.

He was originally trained in medicine by his father, a surgeon-major at a local military hospital. As a young man he moved to Paris, where he served as gagnant-maîtrise at the Salpêtrière.

"Father of Toxicology," was the first great 19th-century exponent of forensic medicine.
Orfila worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation.
Mathieu orfila is known as the father of toxicology because he published the first scientific treatise on the detection of poisons and thei effects on animals

Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological.
l technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements.
was a French criminologist and anthropologist who created the first system of physical measurements, photography, and record-keeping that police could use to identify recidivist criminals.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL was a British writer and physician.
He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.
The Sherlock Holmes stories are considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Sir Francis Galton, FRS, was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician.
He was knighted in 1909.
Galton produced over 340 papers and books.

Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling.
A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of criminality.
Throughout his life, Hans Gross made significant contributions to the realm of scientific criminology

Albert Sherman Osborn is considered the father of the science of questioned document examination in North America.
His seminal book Questioned Documents was first published in 1910 and later heavily revised as a second edition in 1929.
acknowledged expert in the fields of document forgery and questioned document analysis.

Dr. Edmond Locard was a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France".
He formulated the basic principle of forensic science:
"Every contact leaves a trace". This became known as Locard's exchange principle.

Calvin Hooker Goddard was a forensic scientist, army officer, academic, researcher and a pioneer in forensic ballistics.
He examined the bullet casings in the 1929 St.
Valentine's Day Massacre and showed that the guns used were not police issued weapons, leading the investigators to conclude it was a mob hit.