John McNeile Hunter | |
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| Born | January 23, 1901 Woodville, Texas, US |
| Died | July 1979 (aged 69) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cornell University |
| Spouse | Louise Stokes Hunter |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Thermionics |
| Institutions | Virginia State University |
| Thesis | The Anomalous Schottky Effect for Oxygenated Tungsten (1937) |
| Notable students | Herman Branson Rutherford H. Adkins |
John McNeile Hunter (January 23, 1901 – July 1979) was an American physicist and chemist, and the third African American person to receive a PhD in physics in the United States. He spent the entirety of his career as a professor of physics at the Virginia State University, where he also established and served as the first chair of the college's physics department. Virginia State College's physics program was one of the first at a historically Black college in the country. Hunter's research was focused on thermionics.[1]