Claude Wendell Horton, Jr.

Professor Wendell Horton (born February 1942) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin and a widely known authority in plasma physics. Horton’s core area of research is plasma transport and its application to the development of nuclear fusion power. Horton is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Claude Wendell Horton, Jr. was born in Houston, Texas, the son of Claude Wendell Horton, Sr. who was one of the principal contributors to the development of the Department of Physics at the University of Texas, Austin. Horton attended Austin High School (Austin, Texas) where he met Elisabeth Alice Becker in a physics class. Elisabeth is the daughter of Ernst D. Becker, a cotton trader, who had immigrated to Texas from...