Bertillon

[ bur-tl-on; French ber-tee-yawn ]

noun

1. Al·phonse [al, -fons, -fonz, a, l-, fawns], 1853–1914, French criminologist and anthropologist: devised the Bertillon system.

Example Sentences

The Bertillon system was only one of Bertillon’s achievements.

From Literature

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

From Salon

Devised by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879, it was the first scientific method for identifying repeat criminals.

From Literature

Bertillon believed that each man’s measurements were unique and thus could be used to penetrate the aliases that criminals deployed in moving from city to city.

From Literature

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