Henry Ellis Daniels FRS (2 October 1912 – 16 April 2000) was a British statistician. He was

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(1974–1975), and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the

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in 1980. The Parry-Daniels map is named after him (together with the

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Bill Parry). Daniels' family was

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, of

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(partly Polish and partly Lithuanian) origin. He was educated at

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. He subsequently graduated from the

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(, PhD 1943) and went on to further study at

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(B.A. 1935). In 1957, he became the first Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the

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. He stayed at the university till his retirement in 1978. After retirement, he went to Cambridge and lived there until his death. He died at

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, having suffered a "massive stroke" at breakfast time the previous day. His funeral was officiated, at his request, by a

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. The watchmaker George Daniels (no relation) enlisted Daniels' help with the equations required for the design of his ''Space Traveller's Watch''. In 1950, Daniels married Barbara Pickering; together, they had two children.

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1912 births 2000 deaths British Jews Jewish scientists British statisticians British people of Polish-Jewish descent British people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent British people of Russian-Jewish descent Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Birmingham Fellows of King's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society 20th-century British mathematicians {{UK-statistician-stub