American physiologist, neuroscientist, and educator. Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, 1967-1983. Emeritus Professor, 1987-1994. Dr. Hunt was born in Waterbury Connecticut in 1918. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1939 and his M.D. from Cornell University in 1942. He was a National Research Council Senior Fellow in Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1948-1951 and Assistant Professor in Physiology at the University from 1951-1952. He went to the Rockefeller Institute from 1952-1955 and was Professor of Physiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1955-1957. He came to the University of Utah in 1957 and stayed until 1964 as chair of the Department of Physiology. He was at Yale University from 1964-1967 and Washington University School of Medicine from 1967 on. His research has been in the field of muscle receptor function and spinal cord physiology. --University of Utah website; curriculum vitae, 1980; History of the Neurosciences in autobiography, v. 5 (2006), p. 353-378.
From the description of Carlton C. Hunt Papers. 1947-1992. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 181644512
