and Y chromosomes. Nettie Maria Stevens was born on July 7, 1861, in Cavendish, Vermont, to Julia (née Adams) and Ephraim Stevens. In 1863, after the...

twentieth-century cases illustrating the Matilda effect include those of Nettie Stevens, Lise Meitner, Marietta Blau, Rosalind Franklin, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell...

expressed during reproduction, the fetus would develop as a female. Nettie Stevens (working with beetles) and Edmund Beecher Wilson (working with hemiptera)...

American activist Nettie Nielsen (born 1964), Danish badminton player Nettie Rosenstein (1890–1980), American fashion designer Nettie Stevens (1861–1912),...

from one another. Nettie Stevens and Edmund Beecher Wilson both independently discovered sex chromosomes in 1905. However, Stevens is credited for discovering...

which molecules in the cell were responsible for inheritance. In 1900, Nettie Stevens began studying the mealworm. Over the next 11 years, she discovered...

system in 1905—that human males have XY and females XX sex chromosomes. Nettie Stevens independently made the same discovery the same year and published shortly...

determination was discovered in the mealworm by the American geneticist Nettie Stevens in 1903. In 1694, J.R. Camerarius, conducted early experiments on pollination...

Laurie Spiegel Elizabeth Cady Stanton Gloria Steinem Helen Stephens Nettie Stevens Lucy Stone Kate Stoneman Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Williams Russell...

initially controversial, but in 1905 it gained strong support when Nettie Stevens showed that the "accessory chromosome" of mealworms' sperm cells was...