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Alphonse Bertillon
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Noun1.Alphonse Bertillon - French criminologist (1853-1914)
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Using these differences to formally identify a person did not start to take place until the mid-1950s, when Alphonse Bertillion, a French policeman whose father was an anthropologist interested in cataloging the differences in physical traits, saw a way to use this information to identify criminals.
Who Goes There? by Needleman, Ted / The Non-profit Times
 
 
 
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