Background
DANIELS, Henry was born on October 2, 1912 in London. Son of Morris Daniels and Hannah Daniels.
professor of mathematical statistics
DANIELS, Henry was born on October 2, 1912 in London. Son of Morris Daniels and Hannah Daniels.
Sciennes School, Edinburgh. George Heriot’s School, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University and Clare College, Cambridge.
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 Clare College of the University of Cambridge.
In 1957, he became the first Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham. He stayed at the university till his retirement in 1978.
After retirement, he went to Cambridge and lived there until his death.
Institute Statistical Institute.
Married Barbara East. Pickering in 1950.