Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore passed away aged 94 on March 24, 2023. He was an American businessman, engineer, co-founder, and retired chairman of Intel Corporation.
Moore was born in San Francisco, California, and graduated with a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1950. He later enrolled in the California Institute of Technology and completed a minor in Physics and Ph.D. in Chemistry. He also worked at Johns Hopkins University from 1953 to 1956.
Today, we lost a visionary.
Gordon Moore, thank you for everything. pic.twitter.com/bAiBAtmd9K
— Intel (@intel) March 25, 2023
Gordon Moore: The Man with Golden Heart
The world knows that Gordon Moore was an excellent engineer and had a significant role in the creation of Intel Corporation. However, very few know that he was one of the greatest philanthropists as well.
Here are a few heart-warming social activities initiated by Gordon Moore that make him one of the greatest philanthropists of all time:
- Gordon Moore and his wife opened a foundation named “Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation” back in the year 2000. The worth of this property stands at $5 billion. Now, putting it to comparison scale with Gordon Moore’s net worth i.e. $7 billion which is barely more than the worth of the foundation.
- The Gordon and Betty Foundation primarily works on supporting environmental conservation programs. These include projects like Andes-Amazon Basin and the San Francisco Bay area and many more such projects.
- Moore has also served as Director of Conservation International for a few years. He and his colleague Vice-President of Conservation International received the Order of the Golden Ark award for their excellent efforts towards the conservation of nature.
- Moore donated $600 million to Caltech, Research University in 2001. He served as a member of Caltech’s board of trustees since 1983. He donated such a significant amount four decades ago making it quite a remarkable tag of philanthropy. He donated the amount to Caltech to keep them at forefront of research and technology.
- Moore again donated $200 million to Caltech in 2007, this time he wanted to inspire the progress of Caltech as they were working on the world’s second-largest optical telescope in the world.
- In the 1990s, Moore gifted $166 million to the University of California, Berkeley. He wanted the University to expand from material science and physics to genomics and data science.
- Gordon Moore’s wife invested in the welfare of nursing care as their foundation pledged $100 million over 11 years to establish a nursing school at the University of California, Davis.
- Moore has also been a long-time sponsor of Northern California universities including:
- Stanford University (over $190 million until 2022)
- The University of California, San Francisco
- The University of California, Santa Cruz
Gordon Moore was one of the greatest philanthropists the world has ever seen and for his excellent efforts he has also received an honorary award “Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy”.
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