Gordon Moore Net Worth, Age, Height, Awards, Law, Quotes

Gordon Earle Moore is an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation.

Gordon Moore is also the author of Moore’s law.

Gordon Moore attended San José State University for two years before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a B.S. degree in chemistry in 1950.

In September 1950, Gordon Moore enrolled at the California Institute of Technology, where he minored in physics and received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1954.

Gordon Moore conducted a postdoctoral research at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University from 1953 to 1956

Gordon Moore Age

Gordon Moore was born on January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California.

Gordon Moore Height

Gordon Moore’s exact height is not yet known but he is of average height.

Gordon Moore Awards

Gordon Moore’s distinguished career has earned him the following awards;

1990 – National Medal of Technology and Innovation

1993 – John Fritz Medal

2002 – Bower Award for Business Leadership

2002 – Presidential Medal of Freedom

2004 – Perkin Medal

2006 – Nierenberg Prize

2008 – IEEE Medal of Honor

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Gordon Moore Law

Gordon Moore’s law is a term used to refer to the observation made by Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

Gordon Moore Quotes

Gordon Moore’s also somewhat of a philosopher, known for the following quotes;

If everything you try works, you aren’t trying hard enough.
One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes.
I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages.