Argentine police official and anthropologist who developed one of the first practical fingerprint classification systems, used by Inspector Eduardo Alvarez, whom Vucetich had trained, to solve the 1892 Francisca Rojas case, the first murder conviction credited to fingerprint evidence.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountHvar, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia) 1 Defining ContributionDeveloped a practical fingerprint classification system that led to the world's first fingerprint-based murder conviction. 3 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountDactiloscopia Comparada (1904) 1 RoleSourced to the subject's own account Connections
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Inspector Eduardo Alvarez, who lifted the fingerprint that solved the case, had been personally trained by Vucetich in his newly developed classification system.
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Source Wikipedia: Juan VucetichLead paragraphtier 3Quote, Lead paragraph
an Argentine-Croatian anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of dactyloscopy
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1. Wikipedia: Juan Vucetich
WikipediaInfobox, birth date
20 July 1858
Infobox, death date
25 January 1925
Biography section, birthplace
Hvar, Kingdom of Dalmatia, then part of the Austrian Empire
Biography section, publication
he published Dactiloscopia Comparada ("Comparative Dactyloscopy") in 1904
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an Argentine-Croatian anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of dactyloscopy
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Juan Vucetich, who was developing a system of fingerprint identification for police use.
- Disciplines Pioneered: Dactyloscopy
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