14. Morley Chemistry Building
Morley Chemistry Building, located immediately behind the
Agnar Pytte Center for Science
Education and Research, continues to be used for chemistry
laboratories and classrooms. It was planned by Edward
Williams Morley, professor of chemistry, before his retirement
in 1906 and was named in his honor. Morley collaborated with
Case School of Applied Science physics professor Albert
Abraham Michelson on investigation of the ether-drift theory.
This investigation was regarded as one of the two greatest
experiments in physics performed in the 19th century, paving
the way for Einstein's work in relativity. (A boulder near
Amasa Stone Chapel commemorates the Michelson-Morley
experiment.) Morley's own research established the relative
atomic weights of hydrogen and oxygen. The initial gift toward
the Morley building was made by the Chamberlain family in honor
of their grandfather, Joseph Perkins, a trustee from 1846 to
1885. An addition was constructed in 1966.
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