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Francis Galton

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English polymath who devised an early method for classifying fingerprints, establishing that fingerprint patterns are unique to each individual and stable over a lifetime, work that proved foundational to forensic fingerprint identification.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1822 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
1911 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
British 1
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Devised an early method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful to forensic science. 1
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