Nettie Stevens was a pioneering geneticist born on July 7, 1861 in Vermont. She made significant contributions to the field of genetics, including the discovery of the chromosomal basis of sex determination. Her work has had a lasting impact on the field of genetics and her legacy lives on today. She had a successful career and her net worth, biography, age, height, and family are all well documented.
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Geneticist who discovered what would become known as the XY sex-determination system. She was an associate in experimental morphology at Bryn Mawr College.
She received her Bachelor and Masters of Arts from Stanford before studying cytology at Bryn Mawr College.
Google featured her in a doodle on what would have been her 155th birthday in 2016.
She died of breast cancer at John Hopkins Hospital nine years after completing her Ph.D. She is buried next to her father Ephraim and sister Emma in Westford, Massachusetts.
She and Richard Lewontin are recognized for their contributions as geneticists.
