3.1.3: Ian Evangelista Purkynje

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    Portrait of a man in formal attire, seated with a slight smile, featuring wavy hair and a high-collared coat.
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Jan Evangelista Purkynje - Smithsonian Public Domain

    Jan Evangelista Purkynje was a physiologist and anatomist in Czechoslovakia, who studied the patterns of the human ridges, and published a study in 1823 that recognized nine different types of patterns in the pads of the fingertips, or distal phalanx, by which humans could be identified. His works were not generally recognized outside of Czechoslovakia, but he did eventually have a great influence on future research into dactyloscopy

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