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Robert Noyce (left) and Gordon Moore standing outside an Intel building.
Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore Robert Noyce (left) and Gordon Moore in front of the Intel SC1 building, Santa Clara, California, 1970.

Gordon Moore

American engineer and entrepreneur
Also known as: Gordon E. Moore
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Michael Aaron Dennis
Independent scholar. Author of A Change of State: The Political Cultures of Technical Practice at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 1930–1945.
Michael Aaron Dennis
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Gordon Moore (born January 3, 1929, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died March 24, 2023, Waimea, Hawaii) was an American engineer and cofounder, with Robert Noyce, of Intel Corporation. Moore studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1950), and in 1954 he received a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena. After graduation, Moore joined the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, where he examined...

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