Francis GaltonAmong his many significant accomplishments, British scientist SIR FRANCIS GALTON (1822 -1911) was an explorer, a geographer, a statistician, an anthropologist, a eugenicist, and inventor of fingerprint identification. In addition to more than 300 scintific papers, he wrote the books Hereditary Genius (1914), Finger Prints (1893), Memories of My Life (1908), and others. Read More Read Less