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300 BCE
Chinese documents
It was common practice to use inked fingerprints for official documents -
Dr. Nehemiah
He wrote the paper describing patterns on hands. -
Johnann Mayer
He described that skin ridges aren't the same in any two people. -
Archaeologists
Archaelogists discoverr fingerprints -
Jan Purkyn
He described nine distinct fingerprint patterns -
Sir William Herschel
Collected fingerprints and noticed they weren't altered by age. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Used fingerprints to identify criminals. -
Ivan Vucetich
Started fingerprint classification system. -
Murdered sloved
Bertillon solved the first murder case using fingerprints. -
FBI
The FBI now has 23 million fingerprints on file.