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Carl A. Rouse

1926–2014

United States

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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.

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