Gordon Moore was born on January 3, 1929, in San Francisco, California. Known for his intellectual curiosity from a young age, he frequently participated in science competitions while attending Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California. After completing high school, Moore initially enrolled at San José State University. However, after two years, he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1950.
Moore pursued doctoral studies in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), not the University of California as previously stated. He completed his Ph.D. in 1954. Following his graduation, he accepted a position in research at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University, rather than MIT. Eventually, he joined Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, which laid the foundation for his future contributions to the semiconductor industry.
Moore became one of the "traitorous eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to form Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. His leadership and expertise helped shape the company into a pioneer in the semiconductor field. In 1965, he made a groundbreaking observation in an article published by Electronics Magazine, predicting that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double approximately every year. In 1975, he revised this forecast to roughly every two years. This prediction, known as Moore's Law, became a guiding principle for the growth of the semiconductor and electronics industries.
| Birth Date: | 3 Jan, 1929 |
| Age: | 91 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | San Francisco |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American businessman, co-founder of Intel and author of "Moore's Law" |
| Net Worth 2021: | 10.7 billion |
