Louis Frank Moose was born in San Francisco, California, on June 10, 1918. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Berkely in 1940. He was a teaching fellow in Power Engineering at the University of California until 1941, when he then accepted a position as Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radiation Laboratory in Boston, Massachusetts. There he researched the development and application of magnetrons used in radar systems during World War II.

Mr. Moose worked for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. from 1945 to 1982. He started as a member of the technical staff serving in New York from 1945 to 1946 and later Allentown, Pennsylvania, from 1946 to 1982. His responsibilities included: research work on magnetron/microwave tubes used in radar for military and Bell Systems applications; solid state microwave devices and glass engineering; applied mechanics; mechanical engineering, and transistors. He served as department head for several units, including Applied Mechanics and Alloy Transistors, and Solid State Microwave Components Department.

He was a Fellow of the I.E.E.E. and a member of the Telephone Pioneers. Moose died at Wernersville, Pa., on February 23, 2009.