ALPHONSEBERTILLON
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before that time, criminals could only be identified by name or photograph. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting, but "his other contributions like the mug shot and the systematization of crime-scene photography remain in place to this day."The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Alphonse Bertillon
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