On January 3rd, 1929, Gordon Earle Moore was born in Francisco, California.
After completing his education at Redwood City’s Sequoia High School, Moore enrolled at San Jose State University.
He subsequently enrolled in the “University of California,” Berkeley, where he earned his B.Sc. in chemistry in 1950. From 1953 to 1956, Moore worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory.