Morley Chemistry Building 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. (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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