Carl A. Rouse

Carl Rouse
Born(1926-07-14)July 14, 1926
DiedFebruary 25, 2014(2014-02-25) (aged 87)
EducationCase Western Reserve University (BS)
California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ThesisProportional-Counter Selection of Cloud-Chamber Events (1956)
Doctoral advisorEugene 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.