http://www.nsbp.org National Society of Black Physicists Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, National Society of Black Physicists Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@nsbp.org Thu, 23 May 2013 01:35:19 GMT Release http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/133/ About Carl A. Rouse In 1956 Carl A. Rouse became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Rouse's thesis research was in the field of particle physics. He then went on to become the first African American to successfully enter into a career as a professional astrophysics researcher. After graduate school he took a position as a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he studied screened Coulomb interactions utilizing quantum mechanics. Through this work he studied ionization states of atoms at very high densities, and he advanced the fronteirs of knowledge in atomic physics, plasma physics and very much in computational physics. One particular application of his work was on the internal structure of the Sun. Dr. Rouse created detailed models of the solar interior and was the first person to solve the Saha Equation for the solar interior. He was especially prolific in solar physics, proposing... http://www.nsbp.org/en/rel/133/ noemail@nsbp.org Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:30:00 GMT