Carl Trueblood Chase (7 August 1902, Lewiston, Maine – 2 November 1987, Delaware County, Pennsylvania) was an American physicist, known for his 1926 confirmation of the Trouton–Noble experiment, which disconfirmed the luminiferous aether.[1]
Carl T. Chase | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 August 1902 |
| Died | 2 November 1987 (aged 85) |
| Known for | The confirmation of the Trouton–Noble experiment, which disconfirmed the luminiferous aether. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
After graduating from Kennebunk High School, Chase attended Princeton University, where he graduated with B.S. in physics in 1924.[2] He then became a graduate student at California Institute of Technology, where he worked at the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics[1] and graduated with an master's degree in 1926.[3] He received his Ph.D. from New York University (NYU), where he became an assistant professor of physics in 1934. During his career, he taught physics and astronomy at several colleges.[2] In the 1940s he worked at the Franklin Institute.[4]
R. T. Cox was Chase's thesis advisor at NYU. In 1959 Lee Grodzins pointed out that a 1928 experiment by R. T. Cox, C. G. McIlwraith, and B. Kurrelmeyer on double scattering of β rays from radium experimentally demonstrated parity violation, although the significance of the experiment was not appreciated until the late 1950s. In 1929 and 1930, Chase performed more precise experiments which confirmed the 1928 experiment.[5][6]
He married Margaret Armstrong on 21 August 1927 in Maine. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, a son, and a granddaughter.[2]
Selected publications
edit- Chase, Carl T. (1926). "A Repetition of the Trouton-Noble Ether Drift Experiment" (PDF). Physical Review. 28 (2): 378–383. Bibcode:1926PhRv...28..378C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.28.378.
- Chase, Carl T. (1927). "The Trouton-Noble Ether Drift Experiment". Physical Review. 30 (4): 516–519. Bibcode:1927PhRv...30..516C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.30.516.
- Chase, Carl T. (1930). "The Scattering of Fast Electrons by Metals. II. Polarization by Double Scattering at Right Angles". Physical Review. 36 (6): 1060–1065. Bibcode:1930PhRv...36.1060C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.36.1060.
- Chase, C. T.; Cox, R. T. (1940). "The Scattering of 50-Kilovolt Electrons by Aluminum". Physical Review. 58 (3): 243–251. Bibcode:1940PhRv...58..243C. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.58.243.
- Shull, C. G.; Chase, C. T.; Myers, F. E. (1943). "Electron Polarization". Physical Review. 63 (1–2): 29–37. Bibcode:1943PhRv...63...29S. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.63.29.
References
edit- ^ a b "Science Events of 1926". Refrigeration Engineering. 13: 187. December 1926.
- ^ a b c Williams, Jesse Lynch; Norris, Edwin Mark (18 May 1987). "Memorials". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 88: 32.
- ^ "Bulletin of the California Institute of Technology, Annual Catalogue" (PDF). 35 (111).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly. Vol. 48. 3 October 1947. p. 19.
- ^ Cox, R. T.; McIlwraith, C. G.; Kurrelmeyer, B. (1928). "Apparent Evidence of Polarization in a Beam of β-Rays". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 14 (7): 544–549. Bibcode:1928PNAS...14..544C. doi:10.1073/pnas.14.7.544. PMC 1085607. PMID 16587360.
- ^ Grodzins, L. (1959). "The history of double scattering of electrons and evidence for the polarization of beta rays". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 45 (3): 399–405. Bibcode:1959PNAS...45..399G. doi:10.1073/pnas.45.3.399. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 222574. PMID 16590399.