Martha Chase

American geneticist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1927 to 2003 · aged 75

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.

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The file with personal data of Martha Chase as an employee of the University of Rochester: researchers point out that the line "wife's maiden name" illustrates the gender inequality of the time, as it implies that the research assistant will be only a man.

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