Name: Ern Vhangel T.

Barliso
Section: BSC 2A

Personalities in Fingerprints

 Nehemiah Grew (1684) - publish the first scientific paper to describe the
the ridge structure of the skin covering the fingers and palm.
 Marcello Malpighi (1686) - a professor of anatomy at the University of
Bolognathe identified ridges, spirals and loops in fingerprints left on
surfaces.
 Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer (1788) - a German anatomist was
the first European to conclude that fingerprints were unique to each
individual.
 Henry Faulds (1880) - suggested, based on his studies, that fingerprints
are unique to a human.
 Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1823) - identified nine fingerprint patterns.
 Georg von Meissner (1853) - a German anatomist who studied friction
ridges.
 Helman Welcker - He took the prints of his own palms and after forty-
years he printed the same palms to prove that prints do not change
except for some scratches due to old age.
 Sir William James Herschel (1858.) - initiated fingerprinting in India.
 Alphonse Bertillon (1879) - Created a system to identify individuals
anthropometric photographs and associated quantitative description.
 Henry Faulds (1880) - a Scottish surgeon in a Tokyo hospital, published
his first paper on the usefulness of fingerprints for identification and
proposed a method to record them with printing ink.
 Gilbert Thompson (1882) - used his own thumb print on a document to
prevent forgery and later was known for the first use of fingerprints in the
US.
 Arthur Kollmann (1883) - the first researcher to address the friction
ridges on the fetus.
 Francis Galton (1888) - published a detailed statistical model of
fingerprint analysis and identification in his 1892 book Finger Prints
 Juan Vucetich (1891) - an Argentine chief police officer, created the first
method of recording the fingerprints of individuals on file.
 Azizul Haque and Hem Chandra Bose (1897) - two Indian fingerprint
experts credited with primary development of the Henry System
Fingerprint Classification.
 Nehemiah Grew - publish a report before the royal society of London
England describing the ridges and the pores of hand and feet.
 Govard Bidlo - published a thesis “Anatomia Humans Corporis” which
emphasizes the appearance and arrangement of the ridges of the thumb
due to their importance.
 Mark K. Holland - the first American instructress in Dactyloscopy.
 Paul-Jean Coulier (1901) - a French scientist developed a method to
transfer latent fingerprints on surfaces to paper using iodine fuming in.
 Henry P. de Forrest (1902) - Pioneered fingerprinting in the US
 Edmond Locard (1910) - established the first forensic lab in France.
 Dr. Edmond Locard (1912) - studies and investigated identification using
the position and variation of pores as unique ridge characteristic.

Basic Principle of Fingerprint

 Individual Characteristic - Non two fingers have the same pattern.
 Remained Unchanged - A fingerprint will not change during an
individual’s lifetime.
 Unique Patters - Fingerprints have general patterns which make it
possible to classify them as “arch, loop or whorl”.
 Cases of Fingerprint
People vs. Jennings - became the first official case to integrate
fingerprints as plausible evidence in America after prints found at the crime
scene correctly identified Thomas Jennings as the murderer of Clarence Hiller.
However, the strict sentencing of Jennings reveals the continued racial bias
despite the increased accuracy from fingerprinting.

Summary: Jennings appealed his conviction to the Illinois Supreme Court

on a basis of a questionable of new scientific technique. The Illinois Supreme
Court cited the historical research and use of fingerprints as a means of reliable
identification in upholding the conviction, and thus the establishing the use of
fingerprints as a reliable means of identification, Jennings was executed in 1912.

People in the Philippines vs. Medina - the first leading judicial decision in the
Philippine Jurisprudence on the science of fingerprinting (Robbery Case,
December 23, 1933 G.R. No. L-38434 THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINE
ISLANDS, Plaintifappelle, vs. MARCIANO MEDINA y DIOKNO (alyas MARIANO
MEDINA , alias ALEJANDRO DOLA), defendant-appeallant)

Summary: Agripino Ruiz made an impression as the first expert witness

whose expert opinion receives merit in Philippine Judicial History. This could be
considered a landmark case where fingerprint evidence serves as bases in the
common conviction of Marciano Medina.

Who is John Dillinger?

 US notorious public enemy No.1, who tried ti remove his fingerprints with
acid but failed.

Who is Robert James Pitts

 works on Surgery to forged his own fingerprints and was named “Man
without fingerprint”.