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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ash Carter is the 286th most popular physicist (up from 672nd in 2019), the 1,392nd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,064th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Ash Carter ranks 286 out of 851. Before him are William Daniel Phillips, Valentin Ceaușescu, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Peter Mansfield, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, and Antoine César Becquerel. After him are Syukuro Manabe, Joseph Plateau, Charles Wheatstone, Ernest Walton, Lawrence M. Krauss, and John Clauser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Ash Carter ranks 41. Before him are Annie Lennox, Ang Lee, Carlos Ghosn, Condoleezza Rice, Paolo Gentiloni, and Ron Howard. After him are Johnny Logan, Matt Groening, Halimah Yacob, Lawrence M. Krauss, Vojislav Šešelj, and Chris Evert. Among people deceased in 2022, Ash Carter ranks 57. Before him are Jacques Perrin, Kirstie Alley, Issey Miyake, Angelo Badalamenti, Hardy Krüger, and Raymond Damadian. After him are Lata Mangeshkar, Meat Loaf, Pat Carroll, Bill Russell, Teresa Berganza, and Stanislav Shushkevich.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 1,392 out of 20,380. Before him are Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Sherwood Anderson (1876), Paul Bremer (1941), Thomas Wolfe (1900), Butch Cassidy (1866), and George Davis Snell (1903). After him are Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), Edna Purviance (1895), Leo Fender (1909), Burgess Meredith (1907), Walter Brennan (1894), and Eric Adams (1960).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Ash Carter ranks 64. Before him are John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), David J. Wineland (1944), John C. Mather (1946), John Robert Schrieffer (1931), David Gross (1941), and William Daniel Phillips (1948). After him are Lawrence M. Krauss (1954), John Clauser (1942), Harry Daghlian (1921), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Henry Way Kendall (1926), and John Vincent Atanasoff (1903).

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