{{Short description|American physical chemist (1917–2003)}} '''Prince Earl Rouse Jr.''' (October 12, 1917 – August 10, 2003)<ref>http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Noyes/Noyes_Nomination.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319213616/http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/Noyes/Noyes_Nomination.pdf |date=2018-03-19 }} List of former teaching staff at U Illinois</ref><ref>[https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J2HY-R32 Family Search.org]</ref> was an American physical chemist. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1941.
Rouse is most famous for a 1953 publication<ref>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.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rheology.org/SoR/Awards/Bingham/Medalists|title=Bingham Medalist|publisher=Society of Rheology|accessdate=15 December 2018}}</ref>
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