Scheffé worked as a technical assistant at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for four years after leaving school. He then studied at U Wisconsin, Madison (BA 1931; PhD in differential equations, 1935), joining the faculty to teach pure mathematics. In 1941 he joined Wilks at Princeton U and then took posts at Syracuse U (1944), UCLA (1946), and Columbia U (1948), where Kruskal was his research student. In 1953 he became Neyman’s Assistant Director at UCB. He was President of the IMS in 1955. In 1959 his classic book The Analysis of Variance was published. He died in a traffic accident while cycling on the UCB campus.

http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&handle=euclid.aos/1176344837 Fuller biography and photograph.