Gordon Moore

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	"This powerful technology has allowed us to make more and more complex and high-performing circuits... They're the basis of everything electronic we have, unprecedented in human history.", Scientists You Must Know: Intel founder Gordon Moore, Science History Institute

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	"Rather than becoming something that chronicled the progress of the industry, it became something that drove it.", ASML's 'Our Stories', Gordon Moore about Moore's Law, ASML Holding

Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore
	Moore in 1978
Born	Gordon Earle Moore; January 3, 1929; Pescadero, California, U.S.
Died	March 24, 2023 (aged 94); Waimea, Hawaii, U.S.
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BS); California Institute of Technology (PhD);
Known for	Intel; Moore's law; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation;
Awards	National Medal of Technology (1990); John Fritz Medal (1993); IEEE Founders Medal (1997); Computer History Museum Fellow (1998); Othmer Gold Medal (2001); Presidential Medal of Freedom (2002); Perkin Medal (2004); Nierenberg Prize (2006); IEEE Medal of Honor (2008);
	Scientific career
Fields	Entrepreneur; Electrical engineering;
Institutions	Intel; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; California Institute of Technology; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory;
Thesis	I. Infrared Studies of Nitrous Acid, The Chloramines and Nitrogen Dioxide; II. Observations Concerning the Photochemical Decomposition of Nitric Oxide (1954)
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Gordon Earle Moore (3 January 1929 – 24 March 2023) was an American businessman, 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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