(9 September 1950 - present) (2 children) sons Kenneth and Steven. Initially he went to San Jose State University, where he met his future wife, Betty Irene Whitaker. After two years he transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1950. Gordon Moore and Betty Whitaker were married September 9, 1950, and left the next day to move to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2000 Betty and Gordon Moore established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with a gift worth about $5 billion. Through the Foundation, they initially targeted environmental conservation, science, and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, through the Foundation, Betty Moore has created the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, targeting nursing care in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento. The library at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge is named after him and his wife Betty, as are the Moore Laboratories building (dedicated 1996) at Caltech and the Gordon and Betty Moore Materials Research Building at Stanford.