[5] His doctoral thesis at Cornell was titled "The Anomalous Schottky Effect for Oxygenated Tungsten.
He started as an instructor of electrical wiring and worked as an operator of the college's power plant.
Hunter served as the organization's regional director for the East in its first year, and between 1944 and 1945 he was the NIS president.
[10] Among them was Herman Branson, who received his bachelor's degree from Virginia State in physics in 1936, and who went on to become a prominent physicist and president of Lincoln University; and Rutherford H. Adkins, who completed undergraduate studies at Virginia State and later became president of Fisk University.
[1] Hunter was one of the first honorees of the first Day of Scientific Lectures and Seminars (DOSLAS) held in December 1972 at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, along with Dr. Donald Edwards and Dr. Halson V.
[16][17] In February 1974, Hunter was awarded with a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers.
Stokes Hunter later joined the faculty at Virginia State College as a professor of mathematics, where she met John M.
[19] They married in 1929[20] and had a daughter, Jean Evelyn Hunter (1938–2011), who attended Virginia State College and Howard University, and eventually became a research psychologist.