Henry Daniels - Biography

Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society (1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a Silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980. The Parry-Daniels map is named after him (together with the English mathematician Bill Parry).

His family was Jewish, of Russian (partly Polish and partly Lithuanian) origin.

Henry graduated from the University of Edinburgh and went on to study at the University of Cambridge. In 1957, he became the first "Professor of Mathematical Statistics" at the University of Birmingham.

Selected publications by Daniels

External links

• Guardian: Obituary
• Papers and biographical sketch
• Photograph
• The History of the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory