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Alphonse Bertillon — Wikipedia (en)

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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. 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 standardised the process, notably with his file on anarchists. His flawed evidence was used to wrongly convict Alfred Dreyfus in the infamous Dreyfus affair.

Tema degli esploratori: storia e filosofia della scienza (deposito sistematico; ricerca «scientific method»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Alphonse Bertillon» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Bertillon
Wikidata Q568386: «criminologo francese» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q568386
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Bertillon?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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