Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore’s law. As of January 2016, his net worth is $7.3 billion.
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| Born | Gordon Earle Moore January 3, 1929 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Entrepreneur Electrical engineering |
| Institutions | Intel Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation San Jose State University University of California, Berkeley California Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| Alma mater | San Jose State University University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1950) California Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1954) |
| Thesis | I. Infrared Studies of Nitrous Acid, The Chloramines and Nitrogen Dioxide II. Observations Concerning the Photochemical Decomposition of Nitric Oxide (1954) |
| Known for | Intel Moore’s law Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation |
| Notable awards | National Medal of Technology(1990) John Fritz Medal (1993) IEEE Founders Medal (1997) Computer History Museum Fellow (1998)[1] Othmer Gold Medal (2001) Perkin Medal (2004) Nierenberg Prize (2006) IEEE Medal of Honor (2008) Presidential Medal of Freedom |
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Education
Moore was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in nearby Pescadero. He attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City. Initially he went to San Jose State University. After two years he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950.
In September 1950, Moore matriculated at the California Institute of Technology. Moore received a Ph.D in chemistry and minor in physics from Caltech in 1954. Moore conducted postdoctoral research at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University from 1953 to 1956.
Family
Moore met his future wife, Betty Irene Whitaker, while attending San Jose State University. Gordon and Betty were married September 9, 1950, and left the next day to move to the California Institute of Technology. The couple have two sons, Kenneth and Steven.
Gordon Moore co-founded the Intel Corporations and serves as Chairman Emerits, and has a net worth of $7.1 billion. Gordon Moore earned his net worth through his many positions in the business world, and author of Moore’s Law, which was published in the April issue of Electronics Magazine in 1965. He was born in San Francisco, California U.S. In addition to his net worth, he has a kind of name recognition that few in the computer business earn, mostly due to his work on Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law states that the computing power and miniaturization of computers doubles roughly every two years (meaning computers get twice as small and powerful about every two years). This idea was first published in 1965 in an issue of Electronics Magazine, and has proved to be an uncannily accurate prediction in the years since. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 along with Bob Noyce. Since then, Intel has become a trusted and popular brand as computers have gotten more and more popular thanks to personal computing brought on by companies such as Apple and Microsoft. Outside of computers, Moore has a varied amount of hobbies; including a lifelong love of fishing which is said to be the motivating factor behind is efforts in the field of environmental conservation. Other hobbies of Moore include car painting and making small model airplanes.
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