Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

Johann Christophe Andreas Mayer (December 8, 1747 – November 5, 1801)[1] was a German anatomist.

[2] Mayer worked in Berlin and later Frankfurt.

In 1788, he was the first European to recognize that fingerprints were unique to each individual.

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