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Category:	Modern Science
Name:	Nettie Maria Stevens - Biology Series
Birth Year:	1861
Death Year:	1912
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography - Biology Series Blog Nettie Maria Stevens SEARCH NOW: by title by author An outstanding student, Nettie Stevens completed in only two years the four-year course at Westfield Normal School in Massachusetts. She graduated with the highest academic scores in her class. At Stanford, she received her B.A. in 1899 and her M.A. in 1900. Stevens continued her studies in cytology at Bryn Mawr, where she was influenced by the work of the previous head of the Biology Department, E. B. Wilson, and by that of his successor, T. H. Morgan. Her most important scientific contribution was her work on the chromosomal determination of sex, initially reported in her 1905 paper, "Studies in Spermatogenesis, with Especial Reference to the Accessory Chromosome." Working independently of Wilson, Stevens came simultaneously to the same conclusion as Wilson: that sex was determined by a single difference between two classes of sperm-the presence or absence of an X chromosome. (Although she had received her Ph.D. in morphology in 1903 under T. H. Morgan, it was not until 1906 that Morgan accepted the idea that there were two classes of sperm.) The 1901 MBL Report lists Nettie Stevens as an undergraduate student from Bryn Mawr and, in the 1905 Report, as a graduate student. At that time, she conducted research in zoology with T. H. Morgan. Following Stevens' death in 1912, Thomas Hunt Morgan paid tribute to her contributions to science: Modern cytological work involves an intricacy of detail, the significance of which can be appreciated by the specialist alone; but Miss Stevens had a share in a discovery of importance, and her Nettie Maria Stevens will be remembered for this, when the minutiae of detailed investigations that she carried out have become incorporated in the general body of the subject. [Adapted from Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole] The Great Books: Nettie Maria Stevens This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of a Great Books Core List developed by Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Women in Science. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Women in Science. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.