George Smoot Horsley (1916 – 1992) was a physicist and pioneer in printed circuitry and semiconductors.
He served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, originally commissioned a Second Lieutenant in 1942 and assigned to field artillery.
[4] He had served as a missionary and in 1945 was named an acting Chaplain aboard a ship bound for North Africa.
[6] After his military service had ended, he enrolled at the University of Utah, where his grades were sufficient to admit him into Phi Beta Kappa.
After Shockley subsequently established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory under the umbrella of Beckman Instruments, he recruited four men: William W. Happ who he knew from Raytheon,[9][10] Horsley and Leopoldo B. Valdes both of whom he knew from Bell Labs, and Richard Victor Jones, a new Berkeley graduate.