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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martha
- Family name
- Chase
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cleveland Heights
- Place of death
- Lorain
- Occupation
- microbiologist
- Educated at
- University of Southern California
- Employer
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Hershey–Chase experiment
- Field of work
- genetics
- Image
- Martha Chase.jpg
- Significant event
- Hershey–Chase experiment
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- date of birth
- 1927-11-30
- date of death
- 2003-08-08
- Commons category
- Martha Chase
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- name in native language
- Martha Chase
- manner of death
- natural causes
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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.