Nettie maria stevens biography

First scientist to demonstrate that gender is determined by a particular chromosome. Born on July 7, 1861, in Cavendish, Vermont; died of breast cancer on May 4, 1912, in Baltimore, Maryland; daughter of Ephraim Stevens (a carpenter) and Julia (Adams) Stevens; graduated from Westford Academy, 1880, and Westford Normal School, 1883; Stanford University, B.A., 1899, M.A., 1900; Bryn Mawr College, Ph.D., 1903.

Nettie Maria Stevens was born in 1861 to Ephraim and Julia Adams Stevens .

One of four children, she and her sister Emma Julia Stevens were the only ones to live to adulthood. Little else is known about Stevens' background, except that she was an able and intelligent student. She received her early education at the Westford Academy in Westford, Massachusetts, where she graduated in 1880 with a concentration in the sciences; in 1883, she graduated at the top of her class from the Westford Normal School.

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