Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
Although the early years of genetics have been well described by historians, it is only now being realized that this was one of the earliest emerging disciplines in twentieth-century biology to benefit from the contributions of women. Many, however, became 'silent scientists' — publishing no paper beyond their dissertation.
