Prince Earl Rouse Jr. (October 12, 1917 – August 10, 2003)http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Noyes/Noyes_Nomination.pdf List of former teaching staff at U IllinoisFamily Search.org was an American physical chemist. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1941.
Rouse is most famous for a 1953 publicationPrince 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. 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.
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