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.
[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.
[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.