Editing Gordon Moore (section)

{{Short description|American businessman (1929–2023)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| image             = Gordon Moore 1978 (cropped).png
| caption           = Moore in 1978
| birth_name        = Gordon Earle Moore
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1929|1|3}}
| birth_place       = [[Pescadero, California|Pescadero]], [[California]], U.S.{{sfn|Thackray|2015|p=xvi}}
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2023|3|24|1929|1|3}}
| death_place       = [[Waimea, Hawaii County, Hawaii|Waimea, Hawaii]], U.S.
| predecessor = [[Robert Noyce]]
| successor   = [[Andy Grove]]
| known_for         = {{plainlist|
* [[Intel]]
* [[Moore's law]]
* [[Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation]]
 }}
| awards            = {{plainlist|
* [[National Medal of Technology and Innovation|National Medal of Technology]] (1990)
* [[John Fritz Medal]] (1993)
* [[IEEE Founders Medal]] (1997)
* [[Computer History Museum]] Fellow (1998)<ref>{{cite web|title=Gordon Moore 1998 Fellow|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Gordon,Moore/|website=Computer History Museum|access-date=January 8, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108161213/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Gordon,Moore/|archive-date=January 8, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Othmer Gold Medal]] (2001)
* [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (2002)
* [[Perkin Medal]] (2004)<ref>{{cite web|title=SCI Perkin Medal|url=https://www.sciencehistory.org/sci-perkin-medal|website=[[Science History Institute]]|access-date=March 24, 2018|date=May 31, 2016|archive-date=February 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202130738/https://www.sciencehistory.org/sci-perkin-medal|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Nierenberg Prize]] (2006)
* [[IEEE Medal of Honor]] (2008)
  }}
| fields            = {{plainlist|
* Entrepreneur
* [[Electrical engineering]]
  }}
| workplaces        = {{plainlist|
* [[Intel]]
* [[Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation]]
* [[California Institute of Technology]]
* [[Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory]]
  }}
| alma_mater        = {{plainlist|
* [[San Jose State University]]
* [[University of California, Berkeley]] {{avoid wrap|([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])}}
* [[California Institute of Technology]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
 }}
| thesis_title      = I. Infrared Studies of Nitrous Acid, The Chloramines and Nitrogen Dioxide<br />II. Observations Concerning the Photochemical Decomposition of Nitric Oxide
| thesis_url        = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302028299
| thesis_year       = 1954
| signature         = Gordon Moore wafer signature 2.jpg
}}

'''Gordon Earle Moore''' (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the [[Organizational founder|co-founder]] and emeritus chairman of [[Intel|Intel Corporation]]. He proposed [[Moore's law]] which makes the observation that the [[Transistor count|number of transistors]] in an [[integrated circuit]] (IC) doubles about every two years.<ref name="MooresLaw1965">{{cite journal|last1=Moore|first1=Gordon|title=Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits|journal=Electronics Magazine|date=April 19, 1965|volume=38|issue=8|pages=114–117}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| last1=Moore| first1=Gordon| s2cid=6519532| title=Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits (Reprint)|journal=Proceedings of the IEEE| date=January 1998| volume=86|issue=1| pages=82–85|doi=10.1109/jproc.1998.658762|url=http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fussell/courses/cs352h/papers/moore.pdf| access-date=January 8, 2015|archive-date=September 26, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160926001037/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fussell/courses/cs352h/papers/moore.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="dblp">{{DBLP|name=Gordon E. Moore}}</ref><ref name="ACM">{{ACM Portal|id=81542806056}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Moore|first=G. E.|s2cid=74187|author-link1=Gordon Moore|title=The microprocessor: Engine of the technology revolution|doi=10.1145/253671.253746|journal=Communications of the ACM| volume=40|issue=2| pages=112–114| year=1997|doi-access=free}}</ref>