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

Alphonse Bertillon was the black sheep of his largely intellectual family, many of whom were physicians and statisticians.

From Salon

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

But it was Bertillon, beginning in the eighteen-eighties, who pioneered the use of forensic photography.

From The New Yorker

Later in the century, the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon laid the groundwork for today’s police identification system.

From New York Times

We may have come a long way since Alphonse Bertillon’s pioneering use of metric photography, but one wonders what he would have made of our current state of secrecy and denial.

From The Guardian