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Martha Chase
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<p>Martha Cowles Chase (November 30, 1927 – August 8, 2003), also known as Martha C. Epstein, was an American <a href="/facts/Geneticist/cCvzvuKU">geneticist</a> who in 1952, with <a href="/facts/Alfred_Hershey/lAEvkfBe">Alfred Hershey</a>, experimentally helped to confirm that <a href="/facts/DNA/nB89Iauz">DNA</a> rather than <a href="/facts/Protein/Jxmagu3E">protein</a> is the genetic material of life. </p>