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Apr 24, 1853 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 13 Feb 1914 (aged 60)
French forensic scientist
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About Alphonse Bertillon
- Alphonse Bertillon (French: [b??tij?~]; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) 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.He is also the inventor of the mug shot.
- Photographing of criminals began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that Bertillon standardized the process.
