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]

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  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.