William J. J. Gordon (September 9, 1919 – June 30, 2003) was an inventor and psychologist.
He is recognized as the co-creator of a problem solving approach called synectics, which he developed along with George M. Prince while working in the Invention Design Group of Arthur D. Little.
3,055,335 – September 25, 1962), an apparatus for continuous restaurant counter place mats (No.
Built in 1843 by lexicographer and dictionary author Joseph Emerson Worcester on what was originally part of the Vassall-Craigie Estate, Gordon’s 7,150-square-foot, 15-room home on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts was purchased by London art historian Margaret Koster and her husband, Joseph Koerner, in 2006.
He was also the youngest son of Nathan H. Gordon, the motion picture executive.