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Correspondence
Nature 418, 583 (8 August 2002) | doi:10.1038/418583a
Classic detective puts his finger on the clue
David Ehrenfeld1
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Cook College, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8551, USA
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Abstract
A fictional gumshoe was first to pick up the intriguing criminal potential of 'gummy fingers'.
Your News report on the fake fingerprints made by mathematician Tsutomu Matsumoto, using gelatin and a plastic mould (Nature 417, 676; 200210.1038/417676b), is interesting, but hardly novel.
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