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Talbot Albert Chubb (1923-2011) was born on November 5, 1923 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three sons. He was a physics graduate of Princeton University in 1944. He received a doctorate in physics from the University of North Carolina in the early 1950s. Chubb was married to Martha Capps Chubb; together, they had four children. During World War II, Chubb worked on uranium isotopes for the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and served in the United States Army. For over 30 years, Chubb was an experimental physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C. His research included experiments that examined the earth's upper atmosphere, the sun, and a process for storing energy collected from sunlight, called Solchem. His NRL team were pioneers in X-ray astronomy and discovered early evidence of the existence of neutron stars and black holes. After retiring from NRL, Chubb worked with his nephew, Scott Chubb, Ph.D., on the theoretical basis of low energy nuclear fusion. In his later years, Chubb's goal was to raise awareness of the experimental evidence of cold fusion and to foster research on this new energy source. Talbot A. Chubb died on December 11, 2011. (This biographical note was taken from an obituary from the Washington Post published January 7, 2012.)