Alphonse Bertillon

Alphonse Bertillon

Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in undefined different languages on Wikipedia. Alphonse Bertillon is the NaNth most popular inventor, the NaNth most popular biography from France.

Alphonse Bertillon is most famous for inventing the bertillonage system of identification, which was an early form of anthropometry. The system was based on physical measurements of body parts.