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1792 BCE
Babalyon
finger prints pressed into clay -
Dr Nehemiah
wrote a paper on the patterns in human hands -
Johnann Christoph Andres Mayer
countined Nehemiahs work, arrangement of skin ridges is never duplicated in 2 persons -
Jan Evangelist Purkyn
idenified 9 patterns found in finger prints -
Sir Williiam Herschel
found finger prints didnt alter with age an patterns were person uqince -
Alphonse Bertillon
created fingerprint idetifcation systems -
Galton an Sir E R Henry
devolped the current finger print classifcation system -
Sir Francis Galton
varrified again that finger prints don change with age -
Ivan Vucetich
improved fingerprint collection using all 10 fingers prints -
Mark Twain
wrote about a lawyer (Puddnhwad Wislon) who used finger prints as evidence -
Bertillon
credited with sloving first muder using fingerprints