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Nettie Marie Stevens is shown here looking through a microscope while studying at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples, Italy, in 1909. In 1904, soon after getting her Ph.D. in biology, Stevens was awarded a grant from Carnegie Science.
Jun 20, 2010 · Stevens was born in Cavendish, Vermont, on 7 July 1861 to Julia Adams and Ephraim Stevens. In 1870 her father, by then widowed and remarried, moved to Westford, Vermont, with his new wife and four children to take up a job with the Townhouse Building Committee.
Feb 16, 2024 · Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens was a pioneering geneticist, researcher, and teacher who lived during the transformative period from the Civil War to World War One. During her teaching and research careers, she witnessed breakthroughs in science for women coinciding with the growth of her own field — genetics.
Oct 5, 2021 · When Nettie Maria Stevens, MA, PhD died of breast cancer in 1912, she was eulogized by future Nobelist, Thomas Hunt Morgan, in the Science journal. Her passing also was noted by the New York Times . Two years prior, she had been named among the 1,000 leading American “men of science.”
Mar 19, 2015 · Mar 19, 2015. Nettie Stevens. Image from Wikipedia. People understood the difference between male and female before Nettie Stevens, but it was because of her work in genetics that we understand how that difference comes about. Born in 1861, Nettie was an exceptionally bright student, and, after teaching for a few years, received her BA and MA ...
Jul 7, 2016 · The 155th birthday of Nettie Stevens, the biologist who discovered that sex is determined by X and Y chromosomes, is celebrated with a Google Doodle, at a time when women are seeing their...
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The pivotal study that provided this evidence was Studies in spermatogenesis (1905) by Dr Nettie M. Stevens [1]. In this two-part piece, Stevens showed, through careful cytological examination, that the inheritance of the Y chromosome is correlated with male development in dozens of insect species.
