Gordon Moore co-founded the Intel Corporation one of the earliest producers of microprocessor semiconductor chips and semiconductor memory chips. He did this armed with little more than a brilliant mind and a PhD in Physics and Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Many, many, many people have benefited from the work that Gordon Moore and his associates have done. If you have ever used a PC, cell phone, television set, sent an email, driven a car, had X-ray therapy, chemotherapy, any kind of medical treatment involving electric equipment or computer databases, and many other things. Any thing that uses microprocessor chips or semiconductor memory chips or any other kind of integrated circuit chips almost certainly uses inventions and was made with design and manufacturing processes developed by the Intel Corporation.
Gordon Moore is a genius, a top scientist, a brilliant manager and innovator, a great guy and also a philanthropist. Through his Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty, support many, many important projects that protect the Environment, promote Health, advance Science, and other things that are intended to benefit all of humankind.
Gordon Moore signed The Giving Pledge, a campaign that specifically focuses on billionaires (or those who would be billionaires if not for their philanthropy) and was made public in 2010 by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.They all pledge to give at least half of their fortunes to charity.
During his working career Gordon Moore was an outstanding leader of and innovator of applied research. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation supports some very important basic research, such as the Thirty Meter Telescope on Maunakea in Hawaii.
Scientists You Must Know: Gordon Moore
The Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation supports the National Public Radio program Science Friday.
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