1. MARTHA CHASE
Biography
Discoveries
Publications
Inventions
Conducted an experiment to conduct DNA
Works cited
Biography:
-born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, on November 30, 1927
-a bachelor’s degree from the College of Wooster in 1950
-job as a lab assistant to Alfred D. Hershey, a microbiologist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in
Cold Spring Harbor, on Long Island, in New York
-known as a team with Alfred Hershey
- In 1952 she was a young laboratory assistant to American bacteriophage expert Alfred Hershey at Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory from the University of Southern California
-Having married and changed her name to Martha C. Epstein (Martha Cowles Chase
Epstein),
- returned to Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where she lived with her father, Samuel W. Chase
-After graduating from college, Chase worked as an assistant to Alfred Hershey at the
Carnegie Institution of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. This was a critical
period in the history of modern genetics and the beginning of an entirely new phase of
research that established the science of molecular biology. Including the name of an
assistant or technician on a publication, especially one that was certain to become a
landmark in the history of molecular biology, was unusual during the 1960s. Thus, it is
remarkable that Martha Chase's name is inextricably linked to all accounts of the path to the
demonstration that DNA is the genetic material.
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/martha-cowles-chase-wmi/
http://hanneby.com/2011/08/biography-martha-chase-1927-2003-american-geneticist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Chase
