Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine, Vol 4, No. 2, (July - December 2003); 250 Greatest Forensic Scientists of all time

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
51)	Milton	Helpern	1902	1977	US	Forensic pathology
52)	C.H.A.	Henke	1775	1843	Germany	Legal Medicine
53)	Edward (Sir)	Henry	1850	1931	UK	Dactylography
54)	William J.	Herschel	1833	1917	UK	Dactylography
55)	Ordway	Hilton	1913	1998	US	Forensic Document Examiner
56)	Eduard Ritter von	Hofmann	1837	1897	Vienna?	Forensic Medicine
57)	Giovanni Filippo	Ingrassias	1520	1570	Italy	Legal Medicine
58)	Carl Victor	Ipsen	1866 (2 Feb)	1927 (24 April)	Germany	Known for his publications on the production of adipocere, mechanics of bone fracture and toxicology.
59)	Alec	Jeffreys	1950		UK	Forensic Genetics
60)	Lawrence George	Kersta	1907		US	Voice Identification
61)	Paul Leland	Kirk	1939	1970	US	Bloodstain Pattern Interpretation
62)	Bernard	Knight	?	living	UK	Forensic Pathology
63)	Arthur	Koehler	1885	1967	US	Forensic Wood examination
64)	Julius	Kratter	1848 (6 April)	1926 (19 May)	Germany	Researches in death due to electricity and forensic toxicology
65)	Wilton Marion	Krogman	1903	1978	US	Forensic osteology
66)	Jean Alexandre Eugène	Lacassagne	1844	1921	France	Forensic Medicine
67)	John	Larson	1892	1965	Canada	Inventor of cardio-pneumo-psychogram, the precursor of today’s polygraph
68)	Leone	Lattes	1887	1954	Italy	Forensic serology
69)	Henry Chang	Lee	1938 (November 22)	Alive	US	Forensic Scientist
70)	Adolf	Lesser	1851 (22 May)	1926 (6 July)	Germany	Known for his famous “Atlas of Forensic Medicine”
71)	Francois	Leuret	1797	1851	?France	Forensic Psychiatry
72)	Henry Duncan	Littlejohn	1828	1914	Glasgow, Scotland	Father of Harvey. Prof. Of Medical Jurisprudence
73)	Henry Harvey	Littlejohn	1862	1927	Glasgow, Scotland	Prof of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh
74)	Edmond	Locard	1877	1965	France	Criminalistics
75)	Cesare	Lombroso	1836	1909	Italy	Criminology
76)	Douglas M.	Lucas	1929 (5 May)	living	Canada	Toxicology, Criminalistics & accreditation
77)	Virginia	Lynch	?	living	US	Forensic Nursing
78)	Gerald Roche	Lynch	1889	1957	UK	Forensic Toxicology
79)	Herbert Leon	MacDonell	1928 (23 July)	living	US	Bloodstain pattern interpretation (Father of modern bloodstain pattern analysis. Also inventor of the MAGNA Brush for the magnetic processing of latent fingerprints [Patent Number 3,132,036])
80)	George Burgess	Magrath	1870	1938	US	Forensic Pathology. Medical Examiner in Boston.
81)	Keith	Mant	1919	2000	UK	Forensic pathologist
82)	William R.	Maples	1937 (7 August)	1997 (27 February)	US	Forensic Anthropology
83)	James	Marsh	1794	1846	UK	Forensic Toxicology
84)	Henry	Maudsley	1835	1918	UK	Forensic Psychiatry
85)	J.C.A.	Mayer	?18^th Century	?

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

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

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