Gordon Moore
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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
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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, Chemical Heritage Foundation
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Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is an American businessman, co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore's law. As of January 2016, his net worth is $7.3 billion.
Moore was born in San Francisco, California, and grew up in nearby Pescadero. He attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City. Initially he went to San Jose State University. After two years he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1950.
In September 1950, Moore matriculated at the California Institute of Technology. Moore received a Ph.D in chemistry and minor in physics from Caltech in 1954. Moore conducted postdoctoral research at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University from 1953 to 1956.
Moore met his future wife, Betty Irene Whitaker, while attending San Jose State University. Gordon and Betty were married September 9, 1950, and left the next day to move to the California Institute of Technology. The couple have two sons, Kenneth and Steven.
Moore joined MIT and Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments, but left with the "traitorous eight", when Sherman Fairchild agreed to back them and created the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.
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