Patricia Cross

Nettie Maria Stevens: Turn of the century scientist paved path for women in biology

Cross, P.C. and Steward, J.P., Sandstone & Tile. 1993; 17 (1)

This article was written for the Stanford Historical Society. Nettie Maria Stevens received her baccalaureate degree in physiology from Stanford in 1899 and her PhD from Bryn Mawr in 1903. In addition to marking the beginning of a new perspective on the theory of sex determination, her research was the first clear-cut demonstration of the inheritance of any trait in association with a chormosome. David Star Jordan described her as "one of the ablest scientific investigators developed at Stanford."