# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martha-chase
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:47:36.224Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martha-chase"
name: "Martha Chase"
slug: "martha-chase"
description: "Martha Cowles Chase, 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."
tagline: "American geneticist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martha_Chase.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1927-11-30"
deathDate: "2003-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump