BIOLOGIST

Nettie Stevens

1861 - 1912

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Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912) was an American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes. In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male mealworms produced two kinds of sperm, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome. When the sperm with the large chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced female offspring, and when the sperm with the small chromosome fertilized eggs, they produced male offspring. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nettie Stevens has received more than 1,233,137 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Nettie Stevens is the 103rd most popular biologist (up from 139th in 2019), the 1,008th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,374th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Nettie Stevens ranks 103 out of 1,097. Before her are Günter Blobel, Jules A. Hoffmann, Lynn Margulis, Oliver Smithies, John Franklin Enders, and Jean Dausset. After her are Thomas Huckle Weller, Louis Agassiz, Edward Tatum, Jan Swammerdam, Julian Huxley, and Nikolay Pirogov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Nettie Stevens ranks 27. Before her are H. H. Holmes, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, Antoine Bourdelle, Italo Svevo, Maximilian von Spee, and Ranavalona III. After her are István Tisza, Solomon R. Guggenheim, Armando Diaz, Luigi Facta, William Bateson, and Anton Arensky. Among people deceased in 1912, Nettie Stevens ranks 21. Before her are Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Benjamin Guggenheim, William McMaster Murdoch, Johann Martin Schleyer, and James Paul Moody. After her are George Darwin, Franz Reichelt, Nogi Maresuke, Osborne Reynolds, Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Bolesław Prus.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Nettie Stevens ranks 1,008 out of 20,380. Before her are Sherwood Anderson (1876), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), John Franklin Enders (1897), Jerry Bruckheimer (1943), Louise Fletcher (1934), and Mae West (1893). After her are Meat Loaf (1947), L. Ron Hubbard (1911), Phil Spector (1939), Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Ed Wood (1924), and Woody Harrelson (1961).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Nettie Stevens ranks 15. Before her are Linda B. Buck (1947), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), John B. Calhoun (1917), Lynn Margulis (1938), and John Franklin Enders (1897). After her are Thomas Huckle Weller (1915), Edward Tatum (1909), Alfred Hershey (1908), Carl Woese (1928), Edward B. Lewis (1918), and E. O. Wilson (1929).

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