Bertillon

American  

[bur-tl-on, ber-tee-yawn] / ˈbɜr tlˌɒn, bɛr tiˈyɔ̃ /

noun

1. Alphonse 1853–1914, French criminologist and anthropologist: devised the Bertillon system.

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Example Sentences

In many larger cities during the 1890s and early 1900s, the booking and photographing of an arrested person was also accompanied by the taking of Bertillon measurements.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2020

In the 1890s, the French physician and statistician Jacques Bertillon further systematized death reporting by introducing the Bertillon Classification of Causes of Death, the first medical-coding system, which was adopted and modified in many countries.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2017

For all its brash Americanness, “Crime Stories”—and the genre of crime photography itself—is indelibly shaped by the work of the nineteenth-century French police officer Alphonse Bertillon.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016

As far as we know, such a system doesn’t yet exist, but computerized biometric identification technologies like facial and gait recognition software have significantly advanced the Bertillon approach.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016

The forensic science that Bertillon and Lépine relied on was invented by Vidocq.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day