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Martha Chase (Martha Cowles Chase) was born on 30 November, 1927 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA, is an American geneticist. Discover Martha Chase's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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Martha Cowles Chase |
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75 years old |
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30 November 1927 |
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30 November |
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Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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8 August, 2003 |
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Lorain, Ohio, USA |
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United States
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Martha Chase Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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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.
Chase was born in 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Her father was a Western Reserve University Science Instructor and she grew up with her family in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
After graduating from Cleveland Heights High School, she received a bachelor's degree from the College of Wooster in 1950, then worked as a research assistant before returning to school in 1959 and receiving a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Southern California in 1964.
In 1950, Chase began working as a research assistant at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the laboratory of bacteriologist and geneticist Alfred Hershey.
Throughout the 1950s, she returned yearly to Cold Spring Harbor to take part in meetings of the Phage Group of biologists.
While in California, Chase met and married fellow scientist Richard Epstein in the late 1950s and changed her name to Martha C. Epstein.
The marriage was brief and they divorced shortly after with no children.
In 1952, she and Hershey performed the Hershey–Chase experiment, which helped to confirm that genetic information is held and transmitted by DNA, not by protein.
The experiment involved radioactively labeling either protein or nucleic acid of the bacteriophage T2 (a virus that infects bacteria) and seeing which component entered Escherichia coli upon infection.
They found that nucleic acids but not protein were transferred, helping resolve controversy over the composition of hereditary information.
Chase left Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1953 and worked with Gus Doermann at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, and later at the University of Rochester.
In 1959, she began doctoral studies at University of Southern California in the laboratory of Giuseppe Bertani.
A series of personal setbacks through the 1960s ended her career in science.
She moved back to Ohio to live with family and spent the last decades of her life suffering from a form of dementia that robbed her of short-term memory.
Bertani moved to Sweden and Chase finished her thesis with Margaret Lieb in 1964.
Hershey won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery in 1969, but Chase was not included.
She died of pneumonia on August 8, 2003, at the age of 75.
The family Chaseviridae, a group of bacteriophages in order Caudovirales, was named in honor of Martha Chase.