Claude Wendell Horton, Jr.

Claude Wendell Horton, Jr.
Born	February 1942 (age 75) Houston, Texas (USA)
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin University of California at San Diego
Spouse(s)	Elisabeth A. Becker
Children	Mike A. Horton, John W. Horton
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin
Doctoral advisor	Marshall Rosenbluth

Professor Wendell Horton (born February 1942) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at Austin and a student of 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 Germany in 1927. Elisabeth and Wendell were married shortly after graduation from the University of Texas, Austin. Elisabeth and Wendell have two children Mike A. Horton and John W. Horton.

Horton’s interest in nuclear fusion grew during his graduate studies at the University of California at San Diego. Horton was inspired by the enormous potential of controlled fusion reactions to generate cheap, clean, and sustainable Energy on an unprecedented and inexhaustible scale i.e., human generated ‘Star Power’. Horton earned his PhD at UCSD under Marshall Rosenbluth, a scientist who had worked on the Manhattan Project and a close protégé of Edward Teller. Horton has published or edited thirteen books on the theoretical basis for plasma containment and transport, and co-authored over 200 papers. A frequently cited book is “Chaos and Structures in Nonlinear Plasmas” ISBN .

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