BIOLOGIST

Martha Chase

1927 - 2003

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martha Chase is the 420th most popular biologist (down from 397th in 2019), the 3,682nd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,613th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Martha Chase ranks 420 out of 1,097. Before her are John Needham, Alexander Braun, Heinrich Boie, George Albert Boulenger, Carl Hagenbeck, and Adolf Mayer. After her are James P. Allison, Joseph Gaertner, Göran Wahlenberg, Blasius Merrem, Pieter Bleeker, and Asa Gray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Martha Chase ranks 160. Before her are Emmanuel III Delly, Varkey Vithayathil, Carl Switzer, Gerry Mulligan, Neil Simon, and Mikhail Ulyanov. After her are Hiroshi Teshigahara, Marcel Ophüls, Joan Segarra, Martin Walser, Gae Aulenti, and Yutaka Taniyama. Among people deceased in 2003, Martha Chase ranks 115. Before her are Vasil Bykaŭ, Fred Rogers, Mohammed Dib, Bernard Williams, Foday Sankoh, and Karel Kosík. After her are Constantin Dăscălescu, Lothar Emmerich, Johanna Budwig, Rachel Kempson, Jaba Ioseliani, and Anita Mui.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martha Chase ranks 3,682 out of 20,380. Before her are Amelia Bloomer (1818), Edith Head (1897), Neil Simon (1927), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), George Segal (1934), and Howard Zinn (1922). After her are Howlin' Wolf (1910), Joseph Taylor Robinson (1872), Evel Knievel (1938), Larry Silverstein (1931), Archibald Gracie IV (1858), and Richard Sears (1861).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Martha Chase ranks 72. Before her are Henrietta Lacks (1920), Joel Asaph Allen (1838), Frank Chapman (1864), Esther Lederberg (1922), James Bond (1900), and Harold E. Varmus (1939). After her are James P. Allison (1948), Asa Gray (1810), Arthur Cronquist (1919), Robert Weinberg (1942), Robert Gallo (1937), and Luther Burbank (1849).

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