[1] Daniel attended the National Technical University of Athens in Greece.
[citation needed] After completing his PhD, Daniel stayed on at IIT, managing the ITT Research Institute which he inherited from August J. Durelli and as a professor.
[2] In 1982 he moved to Northwestern University where he was the Walter P. Murphy professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites.
[3] His research encompassed composite materials, nondestructive evaluation, wave propagation, fracture mechanics, and nanotechnology.
[5] In 2002, a symposium in his honor was held in conjunction with 14th U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the proceedings published in "Recent Advances in Experimental Mechanics - In Honor of Isaac M. Daniel.”[6]