Claude Wendell Horton Sr. (September 23, 1915 Cherryvale, Kansas – March 2, 2002) was one of the principal contributors to the development of the applied research laboratories and the department of physics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Horton received his bachelor's and master's degrees from what is now Rice University in 1935 and 1936.
He studied in a graduate program at Princeton University from 1937 to 1938 and then returned to Shell about the time of his marriage.
[1] In early 1943 he was an instructor at the Naval Training school at the University of Houston.
He then was a researcher at the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory for about 2 years until it closed in 1945.