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Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, scientist, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
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business · American businessman (1929–2023) · entrepreneur · chemist · philanthropist · engineer · physicist · also Gordon Moore, Gordon E. Moore, Gordon Earle Moore, Moore
Born 3 January 1929 · Died 24 March 2023 · Q243969
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: The Intel trinity : how Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove built the world's most important company / Michael S. Malone
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2023· 4 entries
Business Wire: Tribute Honors Gordon Moore, Intel’s Co-Founder
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Died 2023-03-24.
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As of February 2023, Moore's net worth was reported to be $7 billion.
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Moore died at his home in Waimea, Hawaii on March 24, 2023, aged 94.
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2022· 2 entries
Intel renamed its main Oregon site, the Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, as 'Gordon Moore Park', and the building formerly known as RA4, as 'Moore Center', after Gordon Moore
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Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,025 times.
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2020· 2 entries
Forbes deputy wealth editor Jennifer Wang awarded Moore a perfect philanthropy score of 5, the highest possible rating; placing him among an exclusive group of just ten Forbes 400 members, alongside Warren Buffett, Georg
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Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,804 times.
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2019· 1 entry
Reported net worth: $9.7B (as of 2019).
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2016· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Gordon Moore
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2011· 1 entry
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
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Dan David Prize (2010).
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2009· 3 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2009).
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The Moores received the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy
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Moore was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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2008· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
The foundation pledged $100 million over 11 years to establish a nursing school at the University of California, Davis
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Nierenberg Prize (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Won Perkin Medal (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003).
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Moore was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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2002· 5 entries
Awarded Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2002).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2002).
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Awarded Bower Award for Business Leadership (2002).
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And Conservation International senior vice president Claude Gascon received the Order of the Golden Ark from Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands for their outstanding contributions to nature conservation
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Moore received the Bower Award for Business Leadership
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2001· 4 entries
Won Othmer Gold Medal (2001).
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In 2001, Moore and his wife donated $600 million to Caltech, at the time the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education.
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Moore and his wife donated $600 million to Caltech, at the time the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education
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Moore received the Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to progress in chemistry and science
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2000· 1 entry
Moore and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with a gift worth about $5 billion
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (1998).
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Was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his fundamental early work in the design and production of semiconductor devices as co-founder of Fairchild and Intel"
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1997· 1 entry
Won IEEE Founders Medal (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Published “Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary?” in Controlled Clinical Trials — cited 13,986 times.
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1993· 1 entry
Won John Fritz Medal (1993).
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1990· 1 entry
Moore was with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President George H
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1989· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1989).
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1983· 1 entry
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.
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Frederik Philips Award (1979).
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded W. Wallace McDowell Award (1978).
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Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1978).
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1976· 1 entry
For contributions to semiconductor devices from transistors to microprocessors
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1975· 1 entry
Revised the forecast rate to approximately every two years
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1965· 2 entries
Moore observed that the number of components (transistors, resistors, diodes, or capacitors) in a dense integrated circuit had doubled approximately every year and speculated that it would continue to do so for at least
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Moore was working as the director of research and development (R&D) at Fairchild Semiconductor
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1950· 2 entries
They married in 1950, and Moore became a father to two sons: Kenneth Moore (b. 1954) and Steven Moore (b. 1959).
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And Moore became a father to two sons: Kenneth Moore (b
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1948· 1 entry
And graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's degree with a major in chemistry
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1947· 1 entry
During a student government conference at the Asilomar Conference Grounds
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1940· 1 entry
Moore received a chemistry set as a Christmas gift, which inspired him to become a chemist
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1939· 1 entry
And moved the family to Redwood City, California
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1935· 1 entry
The faculty noted his introverted personality
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1929· 2 entries
Born 1929-01-03.
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As the second son of Walter Harold Moore (a constable and later undersheriff in San Mateo County) and Florence Almira "Mira" Williamson (a homemaker)
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