Dr. Henry Bates
Peacock was one of the founders of
Texas Instruments. Born in
VanBuren County, Iowa in 1894, he received his BS, MS, and Doctorate degrees at the
University of Iowa, finally leaving there in 1925 to work at the
University of Arizona. He left there in 1926 to work at
Geophysical Research Corporation, which he bought and turned into
Geophysical Service Incorporated in 1930 along with
John Erik Jonsson,
Eugene McDermott, and
Cecil Green. The group formed
Texas Instruments in 1951. He was the
fledgling company's
Director from 1951 to 1953.