Famous People with Name Gordon

Gordon Gould            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Gould: was an American physicist who is widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser. Gould is best known for his thirty-year fight with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to obtain patents for the laser and related technologies. He also fought with laser manufacturers in court battles to enforce the patents he subsequently did obtain.By 1957, many scientists including Townes were looking for a way to achieve maser-like amplification of visible light. In November of that year, Gould realized that one could make an appropriate optical resonator by using two mirrors in the form of a Fabry-Pérot interferometer. Unlike previously-considered designs, this approach would produce a narrow, coherent, intense beam. Since the sides of the cavity did not need to be reflective, the gain medium could easily be optically pumped to achieve the necessary population inversion. Gould also considered pumping of the medium by atomic-level collisions, and anticipated many of the potential uses of such a device.

Gordon Matta-Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Matta-Clark: was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.He studied architecture at Cornell University, but did not practice as a conventional architect; he worked on what he referred to as “Anarchitecture.” [1] At the time of Matta-Clark's tenure there, Cornell's architecture program was guided in part by Colin Rowe, a preeminent architectural theorist of modernism. His vision of modernism later influenced much of Matta-Clark's own work in its relation to modernist practice and theory. He also spent a year studying French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and was in Paris during the student strikes of May 1968. It was in Paris that he became aware of the French deconstructionist philosophers and Guy Debord and the Situationists

Gordon Appelbe Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Appelbe Smith: a Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, and teacher living in West Vancouver, BC.He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1996. He is an Education Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia (UBC).His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Ottawa, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

Gordon Willard Allport            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Willard Allport: was an American psychologist. Allport was one of the first psychologists to focus on the study of the personality, and is often referred to as one of the founding figures of personality psychology. He rejected both a psychoanalytic approach to personality, which he thought often went too deep, and a behavioral approach, which he thought often did not go deep enough. He emphasized the uniqueness of each individual, and the importance of the present context, as opposed to past history, for understanding the personality.Allport had a profound and lasting influence on the field of psychology, even though his work is cited much less often than other well known figures.[1] Part of his influence stemmed from his knack for attacking and broadly conceptualizing important and interesting topics (e.g. rumor, prejudice, religion, traits).

Gordon Earle Moore            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gordon Earle Moore: is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine).Moore was born in San Francisco, California, but his family lived in nearby Pescadero where he grew up. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1954.

Robert James Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert James Gordon: an economics professor at Northwestern University. He also holds the title of "Stanley G. Harris, Professor in the social sciences".He is an expert on measuring and explaining productivity, growth, the causes of unemployment, and airline economics.From 1995 to 1997, he served on the Boskin Commission to assess the accuracy of the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI), having written the definitive criticism of CPI inflation overstatement in 1990.Bob Gordon is a member of a family of economists. Both his parents Robert Aaron and Margaret earned distinction independently, each contributing to economic knowledge with a view to real practical benefit for society, as did his brother David, himself more of a radical. For example,

Cyrus Herzl Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cyrus Herzl Gordon: was an American scholar of Near Eastern cultures and ancient languages.Gordon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Lithuanian emigrant and physician Benjamin Gordon. He was raised in an upper class Jewish family with a particular emphasis on devotion to Jewish learning, rational thinking, and an openness to secular learning. Gordon began studying Hebrew at age five and became interested in both Greek and Latin as a young child.

Ruby "Jeanne" Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ruby "Jeanne" Gordon: was an American opera singer active during the early 1900s.Gordon was born in Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada in 1884 and died in Macon on 22 February 1952. Ruby got her big break in July 1919. She was called to New York and offered a three year Metropolitan Opera contract by Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Shortly after signing her contract she changed her name to "Jeanne" Gordon. Her debut performance was as Azucena in Il trovatore.[1] In 1919 she created roles in L'oiseau bleu by Albert Wolff. She made guest appearances with the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1928.

Kim Althea Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kim Althea Gordon: is an American musician, vocalist, and artist. She sings, plays bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth. She also plays in the band Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz (of Pussy Galore), and she has collaborated with many musicians, including

Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nina Rachel Shapiro Gordon: is an American rock singer. Co-founder of the band Veruca Salt, Gordon pioneered and revived Bangles-inspired pop rock for the mid-'90s grunge generation. She quickly became known for her instantly infectious power-pop hooks and melodies, writing Veruca S