Gordon Earle Moore
Top 4 in Top 10 Richest Scientists
Gordon Earle Moore is a co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation in the United States. Moore's Law was also written by him. Moore is the co-founder of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and an active philanthropist.
He graduated from the University of California with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He matriculated at the California Institute of Technology in September 1950, minoring in physics and earning a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1954. From 1953 to 1956, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory.
Moore is the fourth richest scientist in the world, with a net worth of $13 billion.
Estimated Net Worth: $13 billion
