Awards

National Academies - 1993

American Association for the Advancement of Science

About Carl Rothe

Carl Frederick Rothe was born in Lima, Ohio on February 6, 1929 and earned his B.S. in 1951, M.S. in 1952, and Ph.D. in 1955 all from Ohio State University. His undergraduate work was in animal and dairy science and his graduate work was in physiology. From 1955 to 1958, he served as senior assistant scientist in the U.S. Public Health Service before joining the faculty at the IU School of Medicine in 1958 as instructor. He was assistant professor (1960-1963), associate professor (1963-1970), and professor of physiology and biophysics (1970-2000). Rothe played a leading role in teaching physiology to medical, dental, and graduate students in the department of physiology and was particularly influential in establishing the physiology teaching laboratories.

With Ewald Selkurt, he developed a mechanical model of the cardiovascular system which was adopted by medical schools all over the world. Later, he pioneered the use of computer simulations in physiology teaching. Rothe's research was supported without interruption by the NIH for 45 years. He published more than 60 research papers and was an expert on the venous side of the circulation and later in vivo microcirculation of the liver. He was a member of the cardiovascular study section of the National Institutes of Health from 1971-1975. Rothe was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Heart Association, the American Physiological Society, the Microcirculatory Society, and the Biomedical Engineering Society.

Rothe died February 1, 2016.