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Professor Paul-Jean Coulier
Published his observations that fingerprints can be developed on paper using iodine fuming, how to preserve the prints, and theorized on how we could use these with a magnifying glass to identify suspects in crime cases. -
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Fingerprinting
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Gilbert Thompson
First known use of fingerprints in the United States is when Gilbert Thompson used them to prevent forgery. -
Eduardo Alvarez
Made the first criminal criminal fingerprint identification. -
Sir Francis Galton
Published his book, "Finger Prints", explaining how each fingerprint is unique to the individual. -
Frederick Brayley
Published the first American textbook, "Arrangement of Finger Prints Identification and Their Uses". -
Edmond Locard
Wrote that if 12 points were the same between two prints, it would suffice as positive identification. -
FBI
The FBI had processed more than 100 million fingerprint cards in manually maintained files. -
The Fingerprint Society
4 Employees at the Hertfordshire Fingerprint Bureau contacted fingerprint experts around the world and began the country's first professional fingerprint organization, the National Society of Fingerprint Officers. -
INTERPOL
INTERPOL's Automated Fingerprint Identification System repository exceeds 150,000 sets of fingerprints for important criminal records that spans across 190 countries. -
World's Largest Database
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is the largest fingerprint system using fingerprint, face, and iris bio metric records.
