A conversation with Henry Daniels

Abstract

Henry Ellis Daniels was born in London on the second of October, 1912, but his family soon moved to Edinburgh. It was at the University of Edinburgh that he graduated; then he went on to continue studies at the University of Cambridge. He later took an external Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, but his periods of employment, 1935-42 and 1945-46, as a statistician at the Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds, provided him with what was probably the most formative experience of his career. During the intervening period, 1942-45, he was Scientific Officer at the Ministry of Aircraft Production, working particularly on position finding. © 1993, Institute of Mathematical Statistics. All Rights Reserved.