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.
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Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911.
Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911.
Frontispiece from Bertillon's Identification anthropométrique (1893), demonstrating the measurements needed for his anthropometric identification system.
Anthropometric data sheet of Alphonse Bertillon
Illustration from "The Speaking Portrait" (Pearson's Magazine, Vol XI, January to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry.Awards 1
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FranceCategory
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Type
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Status
deceased
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Lived 1853 to 1914 · aged 60
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