Charles R. Cross (physicist)

Charles R. Cross
Portrait of Cross by H. R. Burdick (1925)
Born	March 29, 1848 Troy, New York, U.S.
Died	November 16, 1921 (1921-11-17) (aged 73) Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Putnam Free School (1865) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S. (1870)
3rd Chair of the Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In office 1877–1917
Preceded by	Edward Pickering
Succeeded by	Edwin Bidwell Wilson

Charles Robert Cross (March 29, 1848 – November 16, 1921) was an American physicist and chair of the physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1877 to 1917.