Hershel, W.

Japanese: Hershel,W.(英語表記)HershelW
Hershel, W.

…He submitted this information to the British scientific journal Nature, which was published in its October 28, 1980 issue. This prompted another pioneer, William Hershel (1833-1917), to publish his fingerprint research in the same journal a month later, in its November 25 issue. In 1858, while he was in charge of civil affairs in the Bengal region of India, he had pension recipients take their fingerprints to identify them, successfully preventing double payments, and in 1877 he even advised the British government on the importance of fingerprints for personal identification. …

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…彼はこの内容をイギリス本国の科学雑誌《Nature》に投稿し,それは80年の10月28日号に掲載された。これがきっかけとなって1月遅れの11月25日号の同誌に指紋研究を発表したのが,もう一人のパイオニア,ハーシェルWilliam Hershel(1833‐1917)である。彼は1858年インドのベンガル地方で民政事務を担当していたとき,恩給受給者に指紋を押させて個人識別を行い,二重払いの防止に成功し,77年には指紋の個人識別上の重要性について,本国政府に進言もしていたのである。…

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