Fathers of Forensic Science

A library of founding figures

• Bernard Spilsbury — Father of Forensic Science
• Mathieu Orfila — Father of Toxicology
• Alphonse Bertillon — Father of Criminal Identification & Forensic Photography
• Calvin Hooker Goddard — Father of Forensic Ballistics
• Francis Galton — Father of Fingerprints
• Oscar Amoedo — Father of Forensic Odontology
• Thomas Dwight — Father of Forensic Anthropology
• Paolo Zacchia — Father of Forensic Medicine
• Frank John Wilson — Father of Forensic Accounting
• Hugo Münsterberg — Father of Forensic Psychology
• Arthur Mourant — Father of Forensic Serology
• Alec Jeffreys — Father of DNA Fingerprinting
• Albert S. Osborn — Father of Questioned Documents
• Hans Gross — Father of Criminalistics
• Cesare Lombroso — Father of Criminology
• Alfred Nobel — Father of Explosives
• Jan Svartvik — Father of Forensic Linguistics
• Bernard Greenberg — Father of Forensic Entomology
• Ray Murray — Father of Forensic Geology
• Michael Anderson — Father of Computer Forensics
• Eduard Piotrowski — Father of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
• Norman H. Gunn — Father of Forensic Podiatry
• Virginia Lynch — Founder of Forensic Nursing

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