Education
Doctor Chase received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
Doctor Chase received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
She was a research assistant at the botany department at Columbia University before moving to Washington, District of Columbia In Washington, she worked for the Smithsonian Institution at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, where she studied photosynthesis. While showing the visitors around in the Smithsonian Castle on February 14, 1937, Doctor Meier stepped back, and forgetting that the trap door was open behind her, fell down through it to the floor below, and broke her back.
She was taken to Garfield Memorial Hospital. At the hospital, she would be cared for by Doctor William Wiley Chase, the head of the surgery department.
She was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary member of the Washington Botanical Society.