Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Forensic Science

Doyle lived around the same time as hans gross and was best known as the creator of the fictional detective sherlock holmes.

Sir arthur conan doyle forensic science. Forensic techniques such as serology ballistics fingerprinting and document analysis to find various. Holmes is so much at the forefront of detection that he has authored several monographs on crime solving techniques. His novels also contain the first uses of serology ballistics fingerprinting and document analysis in a crime scene situation and encouraged their use in real world crime scenes. The birth of the modern crime lab can be traced directly to fiction.

Sir arthur conan doyle was a physician and keen observer of his patients abnormalities. Sir arthur conan doyle 1859 1930 author doctor forensic scientist criminal profiler. Conan doyle made holmes a man of science and an innovator of forensic methods. Getting plot ideas from poe he modeled holmes partly on poe s detective c.

But conan doyle resolved that his detective would solve his cases using reason. Arthur conan doyle and the history of forensic science. Sir arthur conan doyle is most well known for his authorship of the sherlock holmes novels. Arthur ignatius conan doyle was born on the 22 may 1859 in edinburgh in scotland.