Background
He was born in Boguslav near Kiev in June 1881 and was a direct descendant of the eminent rabbi Moses Isserles.
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Leon Isserlis
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University College London. Christ"s College.
Career
He also brought to the attention of British statisticians the work of Russian mathematicians and statisticians, including Chebyshev and Chuprov. Upon leaving Cambridge in 1904 he was appointed head of mathematics at the West Ham Municipal Technical Institute (one of the forerunners of the University of East London). He also registered as a research student at University College London, where he studied under Karl Pearson, and was awarded a Doctor of Science in 1916.
In March 1920 he moved to become statistician to the Chamber of Shipping and remained there until his retirement in 1942, when his position as statistician was taken by Maurice Kendall.
In 1926 He wrote a review for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society of R. A. Fisher"s seminal book Statistical Methods for Research Workers. The review was rather critical, particularly of Fisher"s lack of references to earlier work by others such as Chebyshev.
He was also chairman of the Jewish Health Organization from 1931 to 1939.
