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Henry Faulds was a medical missionary who opened a hospital in Japan in 1873. During that time, he conducted research on friction ridges on both humans and monkeys. He became the first person to publish a journal article on the value of friction ridges for crime identification and individualization. At

19th Century The earliest European academia dates back to Dr. Johannes Purkinje, a professor at the University of Breslau in Germany, who in 1823 produced a thesis titled “Commentary on the Physiological Examination of the Organs of Vision and the Cutaneous System”, wherein he classified fingerprint patterns into 9 categories

Ancient History of Friction Ridge Fingerprints Friction Ridge skin impressions were used as proof of identity in China as early as 300B.C. They were first used to investigate crime scenes, the earliest example from a Chinese document entitled “The Volume of Crime Scene Investigation – Burglary” from the Qin Dynasty.