
Henry Faulds was born in the Scottish Town of Beith, North Ayrshire, into a family of modest means.
Henry Faulds is known as the 'Father of Fingerprinting' for his work. He was the first person to suggest the use of fingerprints for idenftification of criminals. His article was published in Nature on October 28th 1890 and mentioned how he had noticed human and animal fingerprints, and the racial differences in patterns.
He described how to take impressions using printer ink in forensic identification of criminals. Most importantly, he mentioned in closing "forever un-changeable finger-furrors or important criminals".
His life-cycle was 1843 - 1930.
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