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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. After a brief experience as an analyst for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, he switched careers to public policy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ash Carter has received more than 2,125,780 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Ash Carter is the 668th most popular physicist (down from 645th in 2019), the 7,682nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,859th in 2019) and the 138th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ash Carter ranks 668 out of 717Before him are Stanley Mandelstam, Brandon Carter, Antonius van den Broek, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Vilho Väisälä, and Julian Barbour. After him are Egon Orowan, Pief Panofsky, Joseph Polchinski, Bernard Lovell, Vladimir Veksler, and Robert L. Forward.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ash Carter ranks 351Before him are Wolfgang Dremmler, Christie Brinkley, Daniyal Akhmetov, Jouko Törmänen, Slaviša Žungul, and Jonas Kazlauskas. After him are Louise Erdrich, Michael Anthony, Bob Menendez, Bill Joy, Paul Gallagher, and Robert Van de Walle. Among people deceased in 2022, Ash Carter ranks 325Before him are Ela Bhatt, Fernando Chalana, James McDivitt, Szilveszter Csollány, Pleun Strik, and François Remetter. After him are Severino Poletto, F. Sionil José, Anton Tkáč, Howard Hesseman, Renée Colliard, and Bahaa Taher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 7,682 out of 18,182Before him are Helen Johns (1914), Patricia Morison (1915), Michael Dunn (1934), Michael Flynn (1958), Dana Vespoli (1972), and Mildred Dunnock (1901). After him are DeWitt Clinton (1769), Billy Strayhorn (1915), Brian Helgeland (1961), Josh Klinghoffer (1979), Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823), and William Colby (1920).

Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 138Before him are Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Leo Kadanoff (1937), Lee Smolin (1955), Edward Condon (1902), Leona Woods (1919), and Lisa Randall (1962). After him are Joseph Polchinski (1954), Robert L. Forward (1932), Robert R. Wilson (1914), Gerald Guralnik (1936), Clyde Cowan (1919), and Frank Benford (1883).