known for his introduction of the biplot. Gabriel spent his youth first in France and then in Palestine, where he studied through correspondence courses. He gained his BA at the LSE and his PhD (in demography) in 1957 from Hebrew U in Jerusalem where he joined the faculty specializing in applying Statistics to meteorology. He moved to U Rochester in the USA in 1975.

http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1450 Obituary.