Prince Earl Rouse, Jr. (October 12, 1917 August 10, 2003)[1][2] was an American physical chemist. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1941.

Rouse is most famous for a 1953 publication[3] in which he introduced what is now known as the Rouse model of polymer dynamics. He was awarded the Bingham Medal in 1966 by the Society of Rheology.[4]

References

  1. http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Noyes/Noyes_Nomination.pdf Archived 2018-03-19 at the Wayback Machine List of former teaching staff at U Illinois
  2. Family Search.org
  3. Prince E. Rouse, A Theory of the Linear Viscoelastic Properties of Dilute Solutions of Coiling Polymers, J. Chem. Phys. 21, 1272 (1953), cited over 1000 times by 2010.
  4. "Bingham Medalist". Society of Rheology. Retrieved 15 December 2018.


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