Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Joe Biden (2025).
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Ash Carter
Ashton Baldwin Carter 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.
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science · American government official and academic (1954–2022) · politician · physicist · university teacher · also Ash Carter, Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter, Ashton Baldwin Carter, Ashton B. Carter, Ashton Carter, Carter
Born 24 September 1954 · Died 24 October 2022 · Q4806029
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2025· 2 entries
Carter was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden
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2022· 2 entries
Winston-Salem Journal: Ash Carter, defense chief who opened jobs to women, dies at 68
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Died 2022-10-24.
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2021· 1 entry
Carter joined Shield Capital's board of Strategic Advisors
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2019).
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2018· 3 entries
Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,698 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,014 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 6,200 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A picture shows Vice President Joe Biden groping Stephanie Carter, wife of former defense secretary Ash Carter, during a government ceremony.” False.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,184 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Carter opened all military occupations and positions to women without exception
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2015· 2 entries
Carter, speaking at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels, said he believed Russia would soon start paying the price for its military intervention in Syria in the form of reprisal attacks and casualties
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of Defense (2015–2017).
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2014· 1 entry
Published “2014 Evidence-Based Guideline for the Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults” in JAMA — cited 6,435 times.
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2013· 2 entries
Published “Inferring tumour purity and stromal and immune cell admixture from expression data” in Nature Communications — cited 7,952 times.
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And the Defense Intelligence Medal for his contributions to intelligence
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States Deputy Secretary of Defense (2011–2013).
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2009· 1 entry
Career landmark: Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (2009–2011).
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2006· 1 entry
Authored a report for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace advocating use or threat of force to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons
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2001· 2 entries
Published “The Sequence of the Human Genome” in Science — cited 10,211 times.
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Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Carter, Deutch, and Philip Zelikow (later executive director of the 9/11 Commission) published an article on "catastrophic terrorism" in Foreign Affairs
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1997· 1 entry
Carter and former CIA director John M
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1994· 1 entry
Which froze North Korea's plutonium-producing nuclear reactor program, the 1995 extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the negotiation of the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, and the multibillion-d
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (1993–1996).
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Joseph A. Burton Forum Award (1988).
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1984· 1 entry
And became chair of the International & Global Affairs faculty
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1979· 1 entry
And was supervised by Christopher Llewellyn Smith
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Rhodes Scholarship (1976).
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Carter completed his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in his double-major of physics and medieval history at Yale College, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
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1975· 1 entry
(where he worked on quark research) and at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1976
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1954· 2 entries
Born 1954-09-24.
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In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to William Stanley Carter Jr
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