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Long-lost photos reveal details of world’s first police crime lab

The archive, saved from a garage, shows pioneer of forensic science Edmond Locard at work in his laboratory in Lyon, France.
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  1. Laura Spinney
Team of the Lyon laboratory circa 1930. Edmond Locard is second from right, in the front row.

Forensic-science pioneer Edmond Locard, second from right in the front row, and his team at the Lyon crime laboratory around 1930. Credit: Archives municipales de Lyon

A photographic archive has been discovered in Lyon, France, that adds precious detail to what we know about the founding of the world’s first police crime laboratory in 1910 and its creator, Edmond Locard, a pioneer of forensic science.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01005-8

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