About

James Wallace Daily was born on March 19, 1913 in Columbia MO, and passed away on December 27, 1991. He was educated at Stanford University and received his MS in mechanical engineering at Caltech, Pasadena, in 1937, and a doctorate in aeronautics in 1945. From this period stems his friendship with Arthur Thomas Ippen (1907-1974), whom he joined at MIT. In 1946, Daily was appointed assistant professor of hydraulics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT, and from 1949 to 1955 was there an associate professor and then appointed full professor of MIT until his retirement in 1980.

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Jim Daily was an IAHR council member from 1964 to 1977, being its president from 1968 to 1971. Thus, he was involved in the IAHR Congresses of Kyoto in 1969 and Paris in 1971. He further laid the basis for the divisional structure as IAHR presents itself today. He was bestowed with honorary membership in 1973 during the 15th IAHR Congress in Istanbul. Other honorary memberships of professional societies were those of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineers JSCE in 1973 and the American Association of Mechanical Engineers ASME in 1980. Daily had been a promoter of cavitation and hydraulic machinery in IAHR sections. He presented the 5th Hunter Rouse Lecture in 1985 in Buena Vista CA.