This article is about the scientist. For the doll-maker, see Martha Jenks Chase.
Martha Chase
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 names
Martha C. Epstein
Alma mater
College of Wooster, University of Southern California
Known for
Hershey–Chase experiment
Scientific career
Fields
Genetics, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
Institutions
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Rochester
Doctoral advisor
Giuseppe Bertani, Margaret Lieb
Martha Cowles Chase (November 30, 1927 – August 8, 2003), also known as Martha C. Epstein,[1] 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.
^Dawson, Milly (2003-08-20). "Martha Chase dies". The Scientist. Retrieved 2010-09-25.
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kitchen blender was used as a major piece of apparatus. Alfred Hershey and MarthaChase demonstrated that the DNA injected by a phage particle into a bacterium...
similar RNA accumulation in 1954. In 1953, Alfred Hershey, June Dixon, and MarthaChase described a certain cytosine-containing DNA (indicating it was RNA) that...
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year before DNA's role in heredity was confirmed by Alfred Hershey and MarthaChase, and two years before James Watson and Francis Crick showed that the...
in heredity was confirmed in 1952 when Alfred Hershey and MarthaChase in the Hershey–Chase experiment showed that DNA is the genetic material of the...
transposons ("jumping genes") in 1944; received Nobel Prize in 1983. MarthaChase and Alfred Hershey, conducted "Waring blender experiments", confirmed...
direct development in the enucleated egg. 1952 – Alfred Hershey and MarthaChase showed that DNA is the genetic material in bacteriophage viruses. 1952...
and MarthaChase confirmed that the genetic material of the bacteriophage, the virus which infects bacteria, is made up of DNA (see Hershey–Chase experiment)...
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