History, Personalities and Years

Question 1

Publish his study describing ridges and pores of the hands and feet

Answer 1

(1684 - 1712) Nehemiah Grew

Question 2

He is known as the “Grandfather of the Dactyloscopy”

Answer 2

(1686 -1694) Marcello Malpighi

Question 3

He discovered the two layers/friction of the skin

Answer 3

(1686-1694) Marcello Malpighi

Question 4

He perceived the ridges to be drawn into LOOPS and SPIRAL and later on name after him as the Malpighi Layer

Answer 4

(1686 - 1694) Marcello Malpighi

Question 5

He studied the arrangement of the skin and concluded that skin ridges are never duplicated in two persons

Answer 5

1788 - Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

Question 6

He was the first European to recognize the fingerprints were unique to each individual

Answer 6

(1788) Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

Question 7

He is the proponent of the Principle of Individuality

Answer 7

(1788) Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

Question 8

He was known as the Father of the Dactyloscopy who described ridges and giving them names

Answer 8

(1823) Johannes Evangelista Purkinje

Question 9

He established the Principle of Permanency by printing his own palm and after 41 years he printed again his palm and discovered that his prints did not change

Answer 9

(1856) Herman Welcker

Question 10

A British Chief Administrative Officer introduced the use of the fingerprint to prevent impersonation among laborers

Answer 10

(1858) Sir William James Herschel

Question 11

Rajyadhar the first subjected for fingerprinting repudiating his signature to contract by who?

Answer 11

(1858) Sir William James Herschel

Question 12

He was considered as the Father of Chiroscopy

Answer 12

(1856) Sir William James Herschel

Question 13

He published the practical use of the fingerprints to identifying criminals

Answer 13

(1880) Dr. Henry Faulds

Question 14

He introduced the practical theory of reproducing fingerprints through the use of greasy materials

Answer 14

(1880) Dr. Henry Faulds

Question 15

He discovered the presence of skin furrows

Answer 15

(1880) Dr. Henry Faulds

Question 16

He propagated the Principle of Infallibility

Answer 16

(1880) Dr. Henry Faulds

Question 17

He caused the publication of Puddin Head Wilson, a noble wherein it is based on dramatic fingerprint identification during a court trial

Answer 17

(1883) Mark Twain

Question 18

The one who divides the types of the fingerprint known as AWL method

Answer 18

(1888) Sir Francis Galton

Question 19

He had proven that the ridges remain constant and unchanging throughout life until decomposition and that the friction ridges contain individual characteristics.

Answer 19

(1888) Sir Francis Galton

Question 20

The one who wrote the book “Fingerprints” and published in 1892 and adopted in 1894

Answer 20

(1888) Sir Francis Galton

Question 21

He published his study on the six divisions of fingerprint classification known as Henry Fingerprint Classification System

Answer 21

(1888-1901) Sir Edward Richard Henry

Question 22

The first man successfully applied fingerprints for identification.

Answer 22

(1888-1901) Sir Edward Richard Henry

Question 23

He was known as the Father of Modern Fingerprint

Answer 23

(1888-1901) Sir Edward Richard Henry

Question 24

His introduction of fingerprint made it applicable to police identification and modifications and used by the FBI and Law Enforcement Agencies

Answer 24

(1881-1901) Sir Edward Richard Henry

Question 25

He is the one who installed fingerprint as an official means of Criminal Identification in La Plata Argentina.

Answer 25

(1891-1896) Juan Vucetich

Question 26

He was known as the "Father of Fingerprint in all Spanish Speaking Countries

Answer 26

(1891-1896) Juan Vucetich

Question 27

In 1892, he made the first criminal fingerprint identification that was able to identify a woman by name Rojas who murdered her two sons and cut her throat in an attempt to place the blame on another

Answer 27

(1891-1896) Juan Vucetich

Question 28

Who suggested that fingerprinting be adopted of Chinese immigrant laborers

Answer 28

(1880) Isiah West Taber

Question 29

He used his own fingerprints on a document to prevent forgery

Answer 29

(1882) Gilbert Thompson

Question 30

A Chief Medical Examiner of the New York Civil Service Commission and An American Preacher used fingerprints to identify applicants to take the qualifying Civil Service Exam.

Answer 30

(1902) Sir Henry P. Forrest

Question 31

He claimed the practical systematic use of fingerprint in the US to identify criminals

Answer 31

(1902) Sir Henry P. Forrest

Question 32

Year when Fingerprint were adopted in Sing sing, Napanoch, Auburn and Clinton penitentiaries

Answer 32

June 5, 1903

Question 33

He is the first fingerprint instructor at the St. Louis Police Department, Missouri and one of the pupils of Sir Edward Richard Henry.

Answer 33

(1904) John Kenneth Ferrier

Question 34

Year when city of St. Louis Missouri became the first City to adopt fingerprints

Answer 34

1904

Question 35

Year when the fingerprint adopted by the US Army

Answer 35

1905

Question 36

Year when the fingerprint adopted by the US Navy

Answer 36

January 11, 1907

Question 37

Year when the fingerprint adopted by the US Marine Corps

Answer 37

1908

Question 38

He published the first american book on fingerprint Boston and what year?

Answer 38

Frederick A. Brayley 1910

Question 39

Year when the first criminal conviction is based solely upon fingerprint evidence in the State of Illinois, USA and what landmark

Answer 39

(1911) People vs. Jennings

Question 40

Year when International Association for Criminal Identification was founded?

Answer 40

1915

Question 41

The year when Frederick Kuhne published a book entitled "The Fingerprint Instructor"

Answer 41

1916

Question 42

The Institution of Applied Science was the first school to teach fingerprint in what year?

Answer 42

June 16, 1916

Question 43

Year when the first monthly journal devoted exclusively to Fingerprint Science

Answer 43

1919

Question 44

Year when National Bureau of Identification was created by the act of Congress

Answer 44

1924

Question 45

The year when Harry Myers II installed the first official fact fingerprint system for infants in Jewish Maternity Hospital in Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA

Answer 45

1925

Question 46

Year when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania USA used compulsory foot and Fingerprinting of new born infants and mothers, which was enacted into law by Act Of General Assembly

Answer 46

April 20, 1925

Question 47

The year when the Bureau of Identification, US Department of Justice adopted the Single Fingerprint Identification System

Answer 47

1933

Question 48

Year when the first National Civil Voluntary Fingerprint was established

Answer 48

1933

Question 49

Year when the first national use of single print for identification is for certain crimes only

Answer 49

1933

Question 50

Harry Myers II a book of "History of Identification of Fingerprint in US" was published in what year?

Answer 50

1938