34 Facts About Gordon Moore

Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.

Gordon Moore proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years.

Gordon Moore was born in 1929 as the second son of Walter Harold Moore and Florence Almira "Mira" Williamson.

When Moore started school in 1935, the faculty noted his introverted personality.

Gordon Moore's father accepted a promotion to deputy sheriff in 1938 and moved the family to Redwood City, California.

In 1940, Gordon Moore received a chemistry set as a Christmas gift, which inspired him to become a chemist.

From 1942 to 1946, Gordon Moore studied at Sequoia High School, where he was involved in athletic activities.

From 1946 to 1947, Gordon Moore attended San Jose State College, studying chemistry.

Gordon Moore transferred to University of California, Berkeley in 1948, taking courses from Glenn Seaborg, Melvin Calvin, and William Giauque.

Gordon Moore graduated in 1950 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry.

In September 1950, Gordon Moore enrolled at the California Institute of Technology, where he would ultimately receive a PhD in chemistry in 1954.

Gordon Moore conducted postdoctoral research at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University from 1953 to 1956.

Gordon Moore joined MIT and Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments, but left with the "traitorous eight," when Sherman Fairchild agreed to back them and created the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.

In 1965, Gordon Moore was working as the director of research and development at Fairchild Semiconductor.

Gordon Moore was asked by Electronics Magazine to predict what he thought might happen in the semiconductor components industry over the next ten years.

In July 1968, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded NM Electronics, which later became Intel Corporation.

Gordon Moore served as executive vice president until 1975 when he became president.

Gordon Moore was a director of Conservation International for some years.

Gordon Moore was a member of Caltech's board of trustees from 1983, chairing it from 1993 to 2000, and was a life trustee at the time of his death.

Gordon Moore said he wanted the gift to be used to keep Caltech at the forefront of research and technology.

Gordon Moore was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 for contributions to semiconductor devices from transistors to microprocessors.

In 2001, Gordon Moore received the Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to progress in chemistry and science.

Gordon Moore was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, as of 2002.

Gordon Moore received the award from President George W Bush.

In 2002, Gordon Moore received the Bower Award for Business Leadership.

In 2003 Gordon Moore was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Gordon Moore was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2005.

In 2009, Gordon Moore was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Gordon Moore was awarded the 2010 Dan David Prize for his work in the areas of Computers and Telecommunications.

Gordon Moore met his wife, Betty Irene Whitaker, in 1947 during a student government conference at the Asilomar Conference Grounds.

Gordon Moore was an avid fisherman since childhood, and he traveled extensively with his wife, sons, or fellow colleagues to catch species such as bass, marlin, salmon, and trout.

Gordon Moore said his conservation efforts were partly inspired by his interest in fishing and his time spent outdoors.

In 2011, Gordon Moore's was the first human genome sequenced on Ion Torrent's Personal Genome Machine platform, a massively parallel sequencing device, which uses ISFET biosensors.

Gordon Moore died at his home in Hawaii on March 24,2023, at age 94.