![]() Our contribution is an attempt to introduce the reader to this scientist and his discoveries in the field of fingerprint identification. The year 2013 marked the 190th anniversary of the publication of his work on this topic. Aside from Herschel, he credits the Czech Purkenje, and many others, including a brief mention of Faulds himself. 1892b) contain numerous detailed references to prior work in the field, and Galton never claimed to be the first to study them. He also established their classification. Galton's published works on fingerprints (e.g. The work of Jan Evangelista Purkynje (1787–1869) ( Figure 1), who in 1823 was the first to describe in detail fingerprints, is almost forgotten. In 1896, a London police officer Edward Henry (1850–1931) expanded on earlier systems of classification and used papillary lines to identify criminals it was his system that was adopted by the forensic world. In 1892, Juan Vucetich (1858–1925) created his own fingerprint identification system and proved that a woman was responsible for killing two of her sons. Henry Faulds (1843–1930) in 1880 proposed using ink for fingerprint determination and people identification, and Francis Galton (1822–1911) collected 8000 fingerprints and developed their classification based on the spirals, loops, and arches. In 1858, Sir William Herschel (1833–1917) registered fingerprints for those signing documents at the Indian magistrate’s office in Jungipoor. This work, however, was not recognized internationally for many years. He divided the papillary lines into nine types, based on their geometric arrangement. ![]() The first system of classification of fingerprints was introduced by Jan Evangelista Purkynje (1787–1869), a Czech physiologist, in 1823. Fingerprints have been used for years as the accepted tool in criminology and for identification.
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