In 1952, Alfred Hershey of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and his lab technician, Martha Chase, wanted to confirm that DNA was the carrier of genetic information. They tagged the protein coating of ...

Groundbreaking experiments by Griffith, Avery, Hershey, and Chase disproved the notion that proteins were genetic material. Through a series of experiments, Griffith established that the virulence ...

Alfred Hershey ... Characteristically, Hershey included his meticulous assistant Martha Chase in the authorship of this and other papers; he said that the experiment would not have been possible ...

Martha Chase ... She was 75. In 1952, Chase participated in what came to be known as the Hershey-Chase experiment in her capacity as a laboratory assistant to Alfred D. Hershey. He won a Nobel Prize ...