Education
Carter received bachelor's degrees in physics and in medieval history from Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
In 1972, Carter graduated from Abington High School in Abington, PA where he had been President of the Honor Society.
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