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Martha Chase

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Also known as Martha C. Epstein, Martha Cowles Chase

American geneticist

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Type
Group
Origin
United States
Active from
1969
Active to
1974

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Key facts

Born
Martha Cowles Chase , ( 1927-11-30 ) November 30, 1927, Cleveland Heights, Ohio , USA
Died
August 8, 2003 (2003-08-08) (aged 75), Lorain, Ohio , USA
Other name
Martha C. Epstein
Education
College of Wooster , University of Southern California
Known for
Hershey–Chase experiment
Fields
Genetics , Biochemistry , Molecular Biology
Institutions
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , University of Rochester
Doctoral advisor
Giuseppe Bertani , Margaret Lieb

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Encyclopedic overview

Martha Cowles Chase (November 30, 1927 – August 8, 2003), also known as Martha C. Epstein, was an American geneticist who in 1952, with Alfred Hershey, experimentally helped to confirm that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life.

Early life and college education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Martha Chase” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.