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PROF. P. J. DANIELL, professor of mathematics in the University of Sheffield, died on May 25, 1946, at the age of fifty-seven. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Senior Wrangler in 1909, the last year in which the names of the candidates in Part 1 of the Mathematical Tripos were placed in order of merit. In Part 2 of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1910 he obtained a first class, and in 1912 he was awarded a Rayleigh Prize. After studying in Göttingen for two years and then acting as an assistant lecturer at the University of Liverpool, he went to the Rice Institute, Texas, where he was professor of mathematics until 1923. In that year he returned to England as professor of mathematics in Sheffield, and held this post until his death. In the summer of 1945 he had a serious illness from which he did not fully recover, and he died about a year later after a sudden relapse.
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Prof. P. J. Daniell. Nature 159, 364 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159364a0
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