Carl A. Rouse
| Carl Rouse | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 14, 1926 Hazelton, Ohio, U.S. | 
| Died | February 25, 2014 (aged 87) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | 
| Education | Case Western Reserve University (BS) California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) | 
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics | 
| Institutions | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | 
| Thesis | Proportional-Counter Selection of Cloud-Chamber Events (1956) | 
| Doctoral advisor | Eugene Cowen | 
Carl A. Rouse (July 14, 1926 – February 25, 2014) was an American physicist, working in the fields of atomic, plasma, and computational physics. Rouse was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in physics from Caltech.