Intel's Moore Gives $200 Million to Build Telescope

Morshad published 06 Dec 2007, 18:51 in main - 249 views

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Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife, Betty, will help build the world's largest telescope by giving $200 million to the California Institute of Technology and the University of California.

The couple's San Francisco-based foundation will add to a previous gift of $50 million, the University of California said in a statement yesterday. The new donation, to be paid over nine years, will help develop and build the Thirty-Meter Telescope, the school said.

The telescope project, whose cost may reach $1 billion, is a collaboration between Caltech in Pasadena, the University of California system, and an association of Canadian scientists. Astronomers could use the telescope to locate and analyze light from the first star systems, study how the Milky Way and other galaxies were formed and evolved, and examine planet

News source: Bloomberg

Tags: Intel, $200 Million, Telescope

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