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Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, (24 November 1922 – 4 September 2015) was a British
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who made major contributions in both academia and the
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. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and said that the thing that frightened him most in his life was when Maurice Kendall asked him to teach a course on
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at the
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Life

Claus Adolf Moser was born in Berlin in 1922. His father was Dr Ernst (Ernest) Moser (1885–1957), owner of the private bank Ernst Moser & Co. in Berlin (est. 1902,
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in 1938). His mother was Lotte (née Goldberg, 1897–1976), a talented amateur musician. In 1936 he moved to England with his parents and his brother Heinz Peter August. He went to
Frensham Heights School Frensham Heights School is an independent school and sixth form college located near Farnham, Surrey, England, run by the registered charity, Frensham Heights Educational Trust Ltd. It was founded in 1925 and formed as part of the movement for ...
and the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...
(LSE). Despite being Jewish, in 1940, he was
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as an
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in Huyton Camp. After four months, he was released and served in the
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, 1943–1946. He then returned to LSE as Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, in Statistics, 1946–1955; Reader in
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, 1955–1961; Professor of Social Statistics, 1961–1970; Visiting Professor of Social Statistics, 1970–1975. In 1965 he was elected a
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. He was appointed a
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(CBE) in the
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, and in 1965, he applied for a job at the Central Statistical Office but was rejected, as a former enemy alien. However, this did not seem to be a problem when in 1967
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appointed him Director of the Central Statistical Office. He was made a
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(KCB) in the 1973 New Year Honours. He resigned as Director of the Central Statistical Office in 1978. He held a very wide variety of posts. These included: * Member, Governing Body,
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, 1967–1979 * Director, Central Statistical Office, 1968–1978 *
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Music Advisory Committee, 1971–1983 * Visiting Fellow,
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, 1972–1980 * Chairman,
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, 1974–1987 * Director,
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, 1978–1990 (Vice-chairman, 1978–1984) * President,
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, 1978–1980 * Chairman, Economist Intelligence Unit, 1979–1983 *
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, Oxford, 1984–1993 * Chancellor,
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, 1986–2002 * Trustee,
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, 1988–2000 * President,
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, 1989–1990 * Pro-Vice-Chancellor,
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, 1991–1993 * Chairman,
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Development Trust, 1993–2003, later Chairman Emeritus * Chancellor,
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, 1994–2004 He was made a
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with the title Baron Moser, of
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in the
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on 23 June 2001. Other honours included the Albert Medal of the
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, 1996, Commandeur de l'
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(France), 1976; Commander's Cross,
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(Germany), 1985. Moser also received an Honorary Doctorate from
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in 1995. While on holidays Moser died in
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(
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) on 4 September 2015, following a
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The Claus Moser Research Centre

Moser was honorary Chancellor at
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at a time of rapid change after funding cuts in the early 80s, and appointment of a full-time vice-chancellor to reduce staff / student ratios further after that first emergency. Keele's funding per student was reduced by a third and Oxford's by a thirtieth from similar amounts per head in the 70s. In 1997 Moser participated in a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Claus Moser Research Centre, a dedicated research facility for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He returned to the university in June 2008 to participate in the official opening of the £3.5m building.Keele University Facebook bulletin
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See also

*
List of British Jewish scientists List of British Jewish scientists is a list that includes scientists from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish or of Jewish descent. Physicists * Petrus Alphonsi, Spanish (not British) astronomer and doctor * E ...


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