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Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Volume 4, Number 2, July - December 2003

For the Record

250 Greatest Forensic Scientists of all time
(Sorted by Last name)

1-50 | 51-100 | 101-150 | 151-200 | 201-250

This is a work in progress. The aim is to gather together 250 Greatest Forensic Scientists of all time. It is almost certain that there would be glaring omissions. While I have taken every effort to check the facts, in some cases the facts may be incomplete/wrong. Readers may want to improve/modify this table, by sending me more names. All contributions will be added with due acknowledgments. In case you do have a name which you do not find here, please Email me. You may want to send me pictures/photographs/short biographies of the scientists already appearing here, which too will be added with due acknowledgments. Please mail me by clicking here.

S.no.

First name

Last name

Birth

Demise

Country

Specialty

1)  

Imhotep

 

-2980

(B.C.)

-2900

(B.C.)

Egypt

Forensic Medicine

2)  

Hugh (of Lucca)

 

?13th Century

?

Italy

Medicolegal Expert

3)  

Michael

Baden

1934

(27 July)

living

US

Forensic Pathology

4)  

Victor

Balthazard

1872

1951

France

Forensic Ballistics

5)  

Edmond

Bayle

1879

1928

France

Forensic Fibre examination

6)  

Alphonse

Bertillon

1853

1914

France

Forensic identication

7)  

Thomas

Bewick

1753

1828

?UK

Dactylography

8)  

Jacques L.

Bril

1906

1981

US

Lie Detection

9)  

Paul

Broca

1824

1880

France

Physician and pathologist

10)                     

Paul Camille Hippolyte

Brouardel

1837

1906

France

Legal medicine

11)                     

James Arnold

Brussel

1905

1982

US

Criminal Profiling

12)                     

Francis Edward

Camps

1905

1972

Great Britain

Forensic Pathologist

13)                     

David Victor

Canter

1944

-

UK

Psychological Profiling

14)                     

Johann Ludwig

Casper

1786

1864

?Germany

Legal Medicine

15)                     

Frederick R.

Cherrill

1892

1964

UK

Dactylography

16)                     

Robert (Sir)

Christison

1797

1882

UK

Forensic Toxicology

17)                     

Robert

Churchill

1886

1958

UK

Forensic Ballistics

18)                     

Cadwallader

Colden

1688

1776

US

Forensic pathologist

19)                     

Theodore

Curphey

1897

1986

US

Forensic Pathology

20)                     

Bartolomea

da Varignana

?14th Century

?

Italy

Medicolegal Expert

21)                     

Giambattista

Della Porta

1535

1615

Italy

Criminology

22)                     

Alphonse

Devergie

1798

1879

France

Legal Medicine

23)                     

John A.

Dondero

1900

1957

US

Dactylography

24)                     

Frank Winthrop

Draper

1843

1909

US

Forensic Pathology

25)                     

Andrew

Duncan

1744

1828

Scotland

Forensic Medicine

26)                     

Thomas

Dwight

1843

1911

USA

Forensic Anthropology

27)                     

Zakaria

Erzinclioglu

1951

(30th December)

2002

UK

Forensic Entomology

28)                     

Jean Etienne Dominique

Esquirol

1772

1840

France

Forensic Psychiatry

(Founder)

29)                     

Henry

Faulds

1843

1930

Scotland

Dactylography

30)                     

Joseph A.

Faurot

1872

1942

US

Dactylography

31)                     

Fortunato

Fedele

1550

1630

Italy

Forensic Medicine

32)                     

Guillaume

Ferrus

1784

1861

?France

Forensic Psychiatry

33)                     

François Emmanuel

Fodéré

1764

1835

Savoy

Forensic Pathology

34)                     

Edward

Foster

1863

1956

Canada

Dactylography

35)                     

Paul

Fraenckel

1874

1941

Germany

Forensic Pathology

36)                     

Francis (Sir)

Galton