1954 - 2022
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, Ash Carter ranks 668 out of 717. Before 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.
1928 - 2016
HPI: 45.00
Rank: 662
1942 - Present
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 663
1870 - 1926
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 664
1924 - 1999
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 665
1889 - 1969
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 666
1937 - Present
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 667
1954 - 2022
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 668
1902 - 1989
HPI: 44.69
Rank: 669
1919 - 2007
HPI: 44.69
Rank: 670
1954 - 2018
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 671
1913 - 2012
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 672
1907 - 1966
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 673
1932 - 2002
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 674
Among people born in 1954, Ash Carter ranks 351. Before 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 325. Before 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.
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 345
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.94
Rank: 346
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.90
Rank: 347
1954 - 2015
HPI: 44.88
Rank: 348
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.85
Rank: 349
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 350
1954 - 2022
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 351
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 352
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.74
Rank: 353
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.70
Rank: 354
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.70
Rank: 355
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.70
Rank: 356
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.69
Rank: 357
1933 - 2022
HPI: 45.18
Rank: 319
1959 - 2022
HPI: 45.08
Rank: 320
1929 - 2022
HPI: 45.05
Rank: 321
1970 - 2022
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 322
1944 - 2022
HPI: 44.91
Rank: 323
1928 - 2022
HPI: 44.89
Rank: 324
1954 - 2022
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 325
1933 - 2022
HPI: 44.73
Rank: 326
1924 - 2022
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 327
1951 - 2022
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 328
1940 - 2022
HPI: 44.59
Rank: 329
1933 - 2022
HPI: 44.45
Rank: 330
1935 - 2022
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 331
Among people born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 7,682 out of 18,182. Before 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).
1914 - 2014
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 7,676
1915 - 2018
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 7,677
1934 - 1973
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 7,678
1958 - Present
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 7,679
1972 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,680
1901 - 1991
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,681
1954 - 2022
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,682
1769 - 1828
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,683
1915 - 1967
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,684
1961 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,685
1979 - Present
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,686
1823 - 1887
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,687
1920 - 1996
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 7,688
Among physicists born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 138. Before 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).
1912 - 1985
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 132
1937 - 2015
HPI: 46.29
Rank: 133
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 134
1902 - 1974
HPI: 45.74
Rank: 135
1919 - 1986
HPI: 45.49
Rank: 136
1962 - Present
HPI: 45.43
Rank: 137
1954 - 2022
HPI: 44.78
Rank: 138
1954 - 2018
HPI: 44.63
Rank: 139
1932 - 2002
HPI: 44.52
Rank: 140
1914 - 2000
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 141
1936 - 2014
HPI: 44.34
Rank: 142
1919 - 1974
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 143
1883 - 1948
HPI: 44.21
Rank: 144