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    Gordon Moore  
          
      
          
      
      
   
  
                  
                            
              
  
                  
                            
              
  
    
        (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) American co-founder of Intel Corporation, and the author of a law,  which states that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years        
          
      
          
      
      
    
  
      Gordon Moore donated $600 million to Caltech in 2001, which is perhaps the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education.