Over a 40-year career (1971-2011), Dr. Carter found success as an educator, physicist and R&D engineer in various sectors of the military and defense industry.
HURRICANE, UT, February 09, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ — Leonard “Pete” Carter, Lt. Col. USAF (Retired), PhD (physics), has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Over a 40-year career (1971-2011), Dr. Carter found success as an educator, physicist and R&D engineer in various sectors of the military and defense industry. In the capacities of an Air Force officer, a Navy and an Army civilian, and as a defense contractor employee, he made significant contributions to a number of national security programs. Some of his noteworthy accomplishments were in hydrodynamics, hydroacoustics, surface effect ship technology, neutron-matter interaction physics, digital signal processing, modeling of the effects of airborne chemical weapons and tactical obscurants, and ballistic missile technology, both land-based and submarine-launched.
During the 1980s and the 1990s, he served as an adjunct instructor at multiple community colleges along with his full-time defense work. From 2001 to 2011 he served as a physical scientist and project manager at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground, and the funding he secured led to a significant increase in Dugway’s computer modeling capabilities. Between 2017 and 2022, Dr. Carter thrived as an adjunct professor of physics at Utah Tech University. Since 2016, he has found further success as a writer for Quora, where he regularly shares his expertise with physics, primarily quantum field theory and general relativity, in addition to related subjects, one in particular being an evaluation of the probability of extraterrestrial life and intelligence.
Prior to his career as a scientist and educator, Dr. Carter served on active duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1962 to 1969. He then retained participation in the Air Force by transitioning to that of an active Reservist, working as a scientific analyst for the Air Force Logistics Command (now the Materiel Command) and later as a physicist with the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base (since disestablished). In 1995, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in applied physics and space science at Boston University, where he developed a comprehensive model of the life cycle of metallic atoms and ions originating from meteor ablation, involving details of the physics and chemistry of the Earth’s upper atmosphere that has since been adopted by research teams across the United States.
In honor of his contributions to the U.S. Armed Forces, Dr. Carter has been celebrated with a host of accolades including the Air Medal, the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service and a career Certificate of Appreciation, both from the Army, and the Meritorious Service Medal from the Air Force. Alongside his primary professional responsibilities, he has excelled as a stock market investor and options trader for more than 40 years. He is on the Board of Directors of the local chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America and an active member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the American Legion, and the Catholic Knights of Columbus. In the coming years, he hopes to spend more time with his children and grandchildren while staying up to date with the latest developments in the physics community.
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