The history of forensic science is thousands of years old, and as more research is being done, more information about the use of forensics is being received. Here is the list of fathers of various branches and fields of forensic science who have made valuable contributions in the field of the legal justice system.
| Sr. No. | Branches and Fields | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Pioneer of Forensic Science | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bernard Spilsbury |
| 2. | Father of Modern Forensic Science | Dr Edmond locard |
| 3. | Father of Forensic Accounting | Frank John Wilson |
| 4. | Father of Forensic Anthropology | Thomas Dwight |
| 5. | Father of Ballistics | Calvin Hooker Goddard |
| 6. | Father of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis | Dr. Eduard Piotrowski |
| 7. | Father of Blood Group Identification | Karl Landsteiner |
| 8. | Father of Forensic Botany | Arthur Koehler |
| 9. | Father of Criminalistics | Hans Gustav Adolf Gross |
| 10. | Father of Criminology | Cesare Lombroso |
| 11. | Father of Computer Forensics | Michael Anderson |
| 12. | Father of Comparison Microscopes | Phillip O. Gravelle |
| 13. | Father of Criminal Identification System | Alphonse Bertillon |
| 14. | Father of DNA Fingerprinting | Alec John Jeffreys |
| 15. | Father of Forensic Entomology | Bernard Greenberg |
| 16. | Father of Explosives | Alfred Nobel |
| 17. | Father of Fingerprints | Sir Francis Galton |
| 18. | Father of Forensic Geology | Ray Murray |
| 19. | Father of Forensic photography | Alphonse Bertillon |
| 20. | Father of Forensic Linguistics | Jan Svartvik |
| 21. | Father of Forensic Medicine | Paolo Zacchia |
| 22. | Father of Microscopic Forensics | Walter McCrone |
| 23. | Father of Forensic Nursing | Virginia Lynch |
| 24. | Father of Forensic Odontology | Dr. Oscar Amoebda |
| 25. | Father of Forensic Palynology | Vaughn Bryant |
| 26. | Father of Modern Pathology | Paolo Zacchia |
| 27. | Father of Forensic Podiatry | Norman H. Gunn |
| 28. | Father of Forensic Psychology | Hugo Munsterberg |
| 29. | Father of Questioned Documents | Albert S. Osborn |
| 30. | Father of Forensic Serology | Arthur Mourant |
| 31. | Father of Modern Toxicology | Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila |
| 32. | Father of Toxicology | Paracelsus |
Debate over Father of Forensic Science:
There are so many researches about history of forensic science is laying around the web and after reading all of them I find out that it is not complete yet but still we want to know that who actually give face to the forensic science and for that we have to still delved. While there is still continuous research on the origin and use of forensic science, in such a situation we can get a list of the fathers of forensic science based on the research and documents available so far, which are:
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