Biography | Gordon Moore — The Engineering Laboratory Dedicated Here on 9 January 1996

Caltech already had his doctorate on the books. In 1996 the Institute put his name on a building. The Gordon and Betty Moore Laboratory of Engineering was dedicated on Tuesday, 9 January 1996. Caltech's contemporaneous press note called it a 90,000-square-foot research and teaching facility designed by Neptune Thomas Davis and built by Swinerton and Walberg. Moore was then chairman of Intel and chair of the Caltech Board of Trustees. The gift paid for laboratories in communications, signal processing, microwave electronics, micromachining, and an entire floor of teaching labs. The photograph on this pin was taken from 34.140192, -118.124475 in May 2013. The building sits on the Holliston side of campus, map number 93, with the walk that students still call Moore Walk running past its portico. This is the afterlife of the 1954 chemist, not a substitute for the rooms where he measured nitric oxide. Those older labs still stand a short walk away under other names. Moore and Betty later gave on a different scale through the foundation they established in 2000. The laboratory is the piece a visitor can photograph without an appointment. He died on 24 March 2023 at his home in Waimea, Hawaii. That house is private and is not on this map. The public ending of the scientific life is this named box of labs on the campus that trained him. Photo: Antony-22, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Moore Laboratory of Engineering, 20 May 2013.