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Chinese historian who suggested that fingerprints could be used to authenticate,
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Was the first European to recognize that fingerprints are unique to an individual.
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Identified nine fingerprint patterns
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German anatomist who studied friction ridges in detail,
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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.
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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
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The first case of the ID, arrest and conviction of a murderer from fingerprint evidence. Alphonse Bertillon identified the killer.
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New York prisons started using fingerprinting in their system in 1903 and the FBI followed shortly after.
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Created the first method of recording fingerprints and the method to keep it on file.
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This system can categorize, search and retrieve fingerprints from across the country in a short amount of time.
