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Ash Carter

1954 - 2022

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Ashton Baldwin Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School. Carter began his career as a physicist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ash Carter has received more than 2,285,459 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Ash Carter is the 672nd most popular physicist (down from 668th in 2019), the 7,065th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,667th in 2019) and the 141st most popular American Physicist.

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  • 54.56

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ash Carter ranks 672 out of 851. Before him are Shoichi Sakata, Ted Fujita, William Astbury, C. V. Boys, Balthasar van der Pol, and Sulamith Goldhaber. After him are John C. Slater, Yoshiaki Arata, Frederick Seitz, John Hopkinson, Max Tegmark, and Ursula Franklin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ash Carter ranks 344. Before him are Alberto Malesani, Jo Gartner, Boro Primorac, Tarak Dhiab, Antonio Olmo, and Zdeněk Pecka. After him are Mark Herman, Robert Carradine, Rahim Ademi, Michael Badalucco, Guy Kawasaki, and Alex Salmond. Among people deceased in 2022, Ash Carter ranks 374. Before him are Gheorghe Berceanu, Hans-Jürgen Dörner, Norman Mineta, Borislav Ivkov, Wolf Erlbruch, and İsmail Ogan. After him are Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Gennady Burbulis, Harrison Birtwistle, Davide Rebellin, Juan Amat, and Betty Davis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 7,065 out of 20,380. Before him are Gregory Walcott (1928), Leo Burnett (1891), Barbara Rush (1927), Blind Willie Johnson (1897), Lewis Cass (1782), and Pat Robertson (1930). After him are Ally Walker (1961), Jo Jo White (1946), J. Christopher Stevens (1960), Robert Parrish (1916), Laura San Giacomo (1962), and Martin Dempsey (1952).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 141. Before him are Victor J. Stenger (1935), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Charles Stark Draper (1901), William Higinbotham (1910), Lee Smolin (1955), and Charles H. Bennett (1943). After him are John C. Slater (1900), Frederick Seitz (1911), Edith Clarke (1883), Robert R. Wilson (1914), Leona Woods (1919), and Leonard Mlodinow (1954).

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