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Kia Kung-Yen
Chinese historian who suggested that fingerprints could be used to authenticate, -
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
Was the first European to recognize that fingerprints are unique to an individual. -
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
Identified nine fingerprint patterns -
Georg von Meissner
German anatomist who studied friction ridges in detail, -
Henry Faulds
Suggested that fingerprints are unique to a human. He published his first paper on the usefulness of fingerprints for identification and proposed a method to record them with ink. -
Francis Galton
Published Finger Prints in 1892 which covered a detailed statistical model of fingerprint analysis and ID'ing. He said a false positive would come up in one in 64 billion -
Scheffer case
The first case of the ID, arrest and conviction of a murderer from fingerprint evidence. Alphonse Bertillon identified the killer. -
New York Prisons and FBI
New York prisons started using fingerprinting in their system in 1903 and the FBI followed shortly after. -
Juan Vucetich
Created the first method of recording fingerprints and the method to keep it on file. -
Integrated AFIS
This system can categorize, search and retrieve fingerprints from across the country in a short amount of time.
