The co-founder of the Intel Corporation has given $12.5 million to the University of Cambridge to create a science and technology library that will house the papers and electronic archive of physicist Stephen Hawking.
Gordon E. Moore, former chair of the giant computer chip company, and his wife Betty made the donation through the university's U.S. development office to fund what he hopes will be the most advanced science library in Europe. "The University of Cambridge has a long history of doing leading research into some of the most fundamental questions that mankind can ask,'' said Moore. "I find this exciting and uplifting and am pleased to contribute where I can.''
Hawking is Cambridge's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a post held in 1663 by Isaac Newton. The University Library already houses the papers of Newton and Charles Darwin.
Posted October 5, 1998.