Henry Daniels

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Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (October 2, 1912 – April 14, 2000) was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society, and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984. 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.^[1]

Preceded by D. J. Finney

President of the Royal Statistical Society 1974—1975

Succeeded by Stella Cunliffe

[edit] References

• Who was Who
• Peter Whittle, A Conversation with Henry Daniels, Statistical Science, 8, (3), (1993) 342-353.

1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

[edit] External links

• IMS Bulletin: Obituary
• Guardian: Obituary
• Papers and biographical sketch
• Photograph
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
• The History of the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory