independent in research as Miss Stevens." Death At 50 years old, and only 9 years after completing her Ph.D., Stevens died of breast cancer on May 4, 1912, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her career span was short, but she published approximately 40 papers. She never married and had no children. She was buried in the Westford, Massachusetts cemetery alongside the graves of her father, Ephraim, and her sister, Emma. Quotes Legacy In 1994, Stevens was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. To celebrate her 155th birthday, on July 7, 2016, Google created a doodle showing Stevens peering through a microscope at XY chromosomes. On May 5, 2017, Westfield State University honored Stevens through the naming ceremony of the Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens Science and Innovation Center. The center is where the university's STEM-related degree programs in Nursing and Allied Health, Chemical and Physical Sciences, Biology, Environmental Science and the then soon-to-be launched master's degree program in Physician Assistant Studies are all based. See also Timeline of women in science References Further reading External links Biography of Nettie Stevens Google Doodle for Nettie Stevens Episode 8: Nettie Stevens from Babes of Science podcasts https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/nettie-stevens-a-discoverer-of-sex-chromosomes-6580266/ 1861 births 1912 deaths Bryn Mawr College alumni American geneticists American women biologists Deaths from breast cancer Westfield State University alumni Deaths from cancer in Maryland People from Windsor County, Vermont Scientists from Vermont American women geneticists 20th-century American biologists 20th-century American women scientists People from Westford, Massachusetts Scientists from Massachusetts