Born January 3, 1929, San Francisco, California. American scientist and engineer, co-founder of Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer. Full name: Gordon E. Moore. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology, he became a research associate at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in 1953. In 1956, he joined the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, which opened in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, at the invitation of Professor William Bradford Shockley, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the transistor. In 1957, he and eight other colleagues went independent and founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Together with Robert Noyce, he succeeded in developing integrated circuits (ICs). In 1968, he and Noyce founded Intel in Santa Clara, Silicon Valley. He served as vice president (1968-75), president (1975-79), CEO (1975-87), and chairman of the board (1979-97), before becoming honorary chairman. Intel grew rapidly through the development and production of microprocessors that process computer information, and became the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer. In 1965, "Electronics" magazine predicted that the processing power (integration density) of semiconductors would double every year (in 1975, this was revised to double every two years). This prediction became known as "Moore's Law," and it has been proven that semiconductors have actually doubled every year and a half for the 40 years since 1961. Moore
Moore, Henry Born July 30, 1898 in Castleford, Yorkshire
[Died] August 31, 1986. Much Hadham, Herfordshire. British sculptor. Born to a coal miner, he served in the First World War. After being discharged, he aspired to become a sculptor and studied at Leeds School of Art from 1919 to 1921, and at the Royal Academy in London from 1921 to 1924. During this time, he was strongly influenced by the primitive and ancient sculptures at the British Museum. In 1929, inspired by the Mexican rain god Chac Mool, he produced his first Reclining Figure, which became an important motif for Moore thereafter. In 1925, he received a scholarship to study in France and Italy. From 1925 to 1932, he was a lecturer at the Royal Academy. In 1928, he held his first solo exhibition in London. From 1932 to 1939, he was a lecturer at Chelsea School of Art. In the 1930s, he lived in Hampstead, where he interacted with avant-garde artists such as B. Nicholson, B. Hepworth, and Reid, and his work became increasingly abstract. In 1940, he moved to Much Hadham, a suburb of London. During World War II, as a war artist, he painted scenes of citizens evacuating from the London Underground, and once again regained his concrete style, producing human figures reminiscent of rocks and tree roots. After the war, he won awards at international exhibitions around the country, and a large-scale retrospective was held, earning him worldwide fame. His works are characterized by their monumental structure and organic contours with smooth undulations. His major works include The North Wind (1928, London Underground Headquarters) and Madonna and Child (1943-44, St. Matthew's Cathedral, Nottingham). Moore
Moore, Grace Born December 5, 1898 in Slabtown, Tennessee, USA
[Died] January 26, 1947. Copenhagen, Denmark. American opera singer and actress. Full name Mary Willie Grace Moore. She was popular in the opera and film worlds, and was highly praised by critics. While studying at the Conservatory in Chevy Chase, Maryland, she made her first public appearance in 1919, performing in a recital at the National Theater in Washington, DC. She then dropped out of school and moved to New York, where she worked as a singer in nightclubs and took lessons. After making her Broadway debut in 1920, she traveled to France to train in opera. In 1927, she joined the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1930, she made her way to Hollywood, where she was selected to play the lead role in One Night of Love (1934). This pioneering attempt to record an opera with a full orchestra was a huge hit. Her other appearances included The King Steps Out (1936) and When You're in Love (1937). In 1947, she died in a plane crash on the way back from a performance in Copenhagen. Moore
Moore, George Edward Born: November 4, 1873, London
[Died] October 24, 1958. British philosopher from Cambridge. As a professor at Cambridge University (1925-39) and as editor-in-chief of the philosophical journal Mind (1921-47), he played a leading role in British philosophical circles. In 1903, he published Principia Ethica and The Refutation of Idealism, which criticized the Hegelian and Kantian idealism that was popular in British philosophical circles at the time, and were the starting point of Moore's own philosophy, known as neo-realism. He rejected systematic philosophy and advocated an analytical method that sheds light on philosophical problems through linguistic or logical analysis, and then discovers new problems. His main works include Philosophical Studies (22), A Defense of Common Sense (25), and Some Main Problems of Philosophy (53). Moore
Moore, Marianne Craig Born: November 15, 1887 in St. Louis
[Died] February 5, 1972. New York. American female poet. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College, she published Poems (1921) and Observations (24) while working as a teacher. From 1925 to 1929, she was involved in editing the literary magazine Dial, and after 1929 she moved to New York to concentrate on writing, publishing many collections of poems. Among them, Selected Poems (35) and Collected Poems (51) were prefaced by TS Eliot, and the latter won the Pulitzer Prize and other literary awards. She is said to be an objectivist poet, with a style that accurately captures the subject with intelligence and wit. His other works include a verse translation of La Fontaine's "The Fables of La Fontaine" (54), a collection of essays called "Predilections" (55), and in 1968 he published the "Complete Poems", which included his later works. Moore
Moore, Henry Ludwell [Born] 1869
[Died] 1958
American economist. He obtained his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a lecturer in 1896, and later became a professor at Columbia University in 1902 after graduating from Smith College. He was one of the pioneers of econometrics, and made outstanding contributions to the theory of wages and business fluctuations. He was the first to statistically derive an individual demand function based on partial equilibrium theory. However, it was his major work, Synthetic Economics (1929), that made him famous. While traditional economics generally focused on abstract elucidation of functional relationships between economic variables, Synthetic Economics's work statistically and empirically measured functional relationships, and had a major impact on the world's economic world in that it aimed to establish a comprehensive economics by combining theory and empirical evidence. His other works include "Law of Wages" (11), "Economic Cycles: Their Law and Cause" (14), and "Forecasting the Yield and Price of Cotton" (17). Moore
Moore, George (Augustus) Born: February 24, 1852. Mayo, Ballyglass
[Died] January 21, 1933, London. Irish novelist. His father was a member of Parliament. He associated with a group of writers and artists in Paris, and entered the London literary world with novels influenced by French naturalism, especially Zola. He then settled in his native country for a while, and participated in the Irish Literary Revival, working with Yeats and Mrs. Gregory, but returned to London in his later years. His representative works include A Mummer's Wife (1885) and Esther Waters (94). He also wrote a series of autobiographies and historical novels, including Confessions of a Young Man (88) and Memoirs of My Dead Life (1906). Moore
Moore, Charles Willard Born October 31, 1925 in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
[Died] December 16, 1993. Austin, Texas. American architect. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1947, he studied architecture at Princeton University's Graduate School. He has taught at many universities in the United States, including as Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. In 1962, he designed Sea Ranch, a weekend apartment complex in Northern California. It attracted attention for its tightly packed form, with ten houses surrounding a courtyard, made up of 24-foot cubes with sloped roofs. He later became a leader in postmodern architecture along with R. Venturi. One of his representative works is the design of Piazza d'Italie (1978, New Orleans), which makes extensive use of various historical motifs. In 1991, he received the American Institute of Architects Award. Moore
Moore, Thomas Born: May 28, 1779 in Dublin
[Died] 25 February 1852, Devizes, Wiltshire. Irish poet. He was called the national poet of Ireland for his collection of lyric poems, Irish Melodies (1807-35), in which he wrote lyrics to the tunes of old Irish folk songs. His other works include the oriental narrative poem Lalla Rookh (17), the satirical poem The Twopenny Post-Bag (13) against the Regent's court, and the amusing epistolary poem The Fudge Family in Paris (18). He also wrote biographies of Sheridan and Byron. Moore
Moore, Sir John Born: November 13, 1761, Glasgow
[Died] January 16, 1809. Cornia. British soldier. After participating in the American War of Independence, he briefly served as a member of the House of Representatives. He served in the West Indies in 1796, and in Ireland from 1797 to 1799. In 1801, he participated in the Egyptian expedition under the command of R. Abercromby. In 1808, he was posted to the Iberian Peninsula, where he was promoted to command the British forces in the area. However, due to the superiority of the French forces there, he retreated from Astorga to Cornia, where he fought against the French, but was killed in battle just before the British victory. Moore
Moore, Gerald Born: July 30, 1899, Watford
[Died] March 13, 1987. Buckinghamshire. British pianist. World-renowned as one of the greatest contemporary accompanists. Known especially as an accompanist for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, he created music that went beyond the realm of traditional accompaniment. He was also known as a chamber musician. He retired in 1967. His books include The Unashamed Accompanist. Moore
Moore, Stanford Born: September 4, 1913, Chicago
[Died] August 23, 1982, New York. American biochemist. Earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 1938. Was a research associate in the Department of Medicine at the Rockefeller Institute (1939), and a professor at Rockefeller University (52). Known for his chromatographic analysis of amino acids and peptides obtained from various proteins, particularly for determining the structure of ribonuclease. In 1972, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with CB Anfinsen and WH Stein. Moore
Moore, Edward [Born] 1712
[Died] 1757
English playwright. Author of the comedy Gil Blass (1751) and the tragedy Gamester (53), both of which were performed at Drury Lane Theatre. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
