It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.

He is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom the United States' highest civilian honor. In April 1979 Dr. The library at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge is named after him and his wife Betty as is the Moore Laboratories building (dedicated 1996) at Caltech.