Hunt, Carlton C., M.D.

Dr Hunt was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1918. Dr Hunt received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1939 and his M.D. from Cornell University in 1942. Dr Hunt was a National Research Council Senior Fellow in Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1948-1951 and Assistant Professor in Physiology at Johns Hopkins University from 1951-1952. Dr Hunt was at the Rockefeller Institute from 1952-1955 later became Professor of Physiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1955-1957. Dr Hunt came to the University of Utah in 1957 as Chair of the Department of Physiology from 1957-1964. Dr Hunt left the University to take a position at Yale University from 1964-1967 and later, Washington University School of Medicine (1967) as Professor of Physiology and Biophysiology until his retirement in 1983. Dr Hunt was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. Dr Hunt died in 2008.