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'''James Power Gordon''' (March 20, 1928 – June 21, 2013) was an American physicist known for his work in the fields of [[optics]] and [[quantum electronics]]. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first [[maser]] in 1954 as a doctoral student at [[Columbia University]] under the supervision of [[Charles Hard Townes|C. H. Townes]], development of the quantal equivalent of [[Claude Shannon|Shannon]]’s [[Channel Capacity|information capacity]] formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap (together with [[Arthur Ashkin|A. Ashkin]]) in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the [[Gordon-Haus effect]] in [[soliton]] transmission, together with [[H. A. Haus]] in 1986.
James P. Gordon was a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] (since 1985) and the [[National Academy of Science]] (since 1988).
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