[2] He spent fifty-six years of his career extending Pavlov's seminal experimental research on classical conditioning.
When Gantt was twelve years old, his mother enrolled him in the Miller School in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he attended on a scholarship.
[1] In 1922, Gantt began working for the American Relief Administration in Petrograd, Russia, where he studied the health effects of famine and war.
Gantt then completed a one-year residency at University College Medical School, where he studied liver pathology with John William McNee.
[5] In 1948, he and William G. Reese founded the Psychological Research Laboratory at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Perry Point, Maryland.
[7] He insisted on giving the journal this name because the term "conditional" preserves the fact that the reflex, rather than being fixed, is dependent on a stimulus and subject to change.
He was nominated for (but did not win) a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1970, and received the Gold Medal Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry in 1972.