SUBJECT PRESENTATION

Who am i ?

The woman whose popularity was stolen...

The American geneticist Nettie Maria Stefans who died in 1912 is the first woment who contributed to genetic research. She discovered during the first decade of the twentieth century that the sex of the child was determined by the chromosomes.

If she has been recognized many times for her work and honored with many titles. However her name is absent from most biology and genetic texts and the Nobel Prize for this discovery was awarded to Thomas Hunt Morgan, the Director of Bryn Mawr College where the scientist worked.

The latter would have declared: “His determination and his dedication, combined with a great sense of observation, his seriousness and his patience, united with a solid judgment, partly explain his remarkable success”.