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Martha Cowles Chase
American geneticist, 1927-2003.
Associated eponyms:
Hershey-Chase blender experiment
Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase in 1952 showed DNA to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction, working with T2 phage.
Biography:
Martha Cowles Chase was Alfred Day Hershey's assistant at the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, New York.
We thank Andre Trombeta for information submitted.
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