Carol Jane Anger Rieke (January 17, 1908 – December 31, 1999) was an American astronomer, computational chemist, and mathematics educator.

"[1] She pursued graduate studies in astronomy at Radcliffe College, working at Harvard University with Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Harlow Shapley.

[2] She earned her Ph.D. in 1932, with Nobel laureate in Physics John Hasbrouck Von Vleck as her advisor;[3] her dissertation, "Spectroscopic Parallaxes of Galactic and Moving Clusters" won the Caroline Wilby Prize for outstanding Radcliffe thesis that year.

[4] She spent a year at Harvard Observatory as a recipient of the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.

When the couple moved back to Chicago, she taught mathematics at South Suburban College while resuming her chemistry research with Mulliken.