Martha Chase is Important and why?

Martha Cowles Chase (1927 – August 8, 2003), also known as Martha C. Epstein, was an American geneticist famously known for being a member of the 1952 team which experimentally showed that DNA rather than protein is the genetic material of life. She was greatly respected as a geneticist. Chase was born in 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1950 she received her bachelor's degree from The College of Wooster and in 1964 her PhD from the University of Southern California.

In 1952 as a young laboratory assistant of American bacteriophage expert Alfred Hershey at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from the University of Southern California. A series of personal setbacks through the 1960s ended her career in science. She spent decades suffering from a form of dementia that robbed her of short-term memory. She died on August 19, 2003.