About
American businessman and engineer best known as being the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He was also known for proposing Moore's Law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles roughly every two years.
Before Fame
From 1942 to 1946, he studied at Sequoia High School. From 1946 to 1947, he went to San Jose State University to major in chemistry. In 1948, he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley. In 1954, he received a PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.
Trivia
From 1953 to 1956, he conducted postdoctoral research at the applied physics laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. He was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1990.
Family Life
In 1950, he married his wife Betty Moore. They had two children named Kenneth Moore and Steven Moore. He is the second son of Walter Harold Moore and Florence Almira "Mira" Williamson.
Associated With
While at the University of California, he took chemistry courses taught by Glenn T. Seaborg and Melvin Calvin.
