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'''Rachel Carson''' (1907-1964) is author of ''[[Silent Spring]]'' the book led to the United States [[EPA]] banning the pesticide [[DDT]]. | '''Rachel Carson''' (1907-1964) is author of ''[[Silent Spring]]'' the book led to the United States [[EPA]] banning the pesticide [[DDT]]. | ||
| − | Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929 | + | Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929. |
| − | *Embedded within all of Carson's writing was the view that human beings were but one part of nature distinguished primarily by their power to alter it, in some cases irreversibly. | + | |
| + | *Embedded within all of Carson's writing was the view that human beings were but one part of nature distinguished primarily by their power to alter it, in some cases irreversibly.[http://www.rachelcarson.org/?v1=About] | ||
*Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against [[breast cancer]]. | *Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against [[breast cancer]]. | ||
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| + | [[Neil Baldwin]] wrote: | ||
| + | :She started out as an English major, but a required biology course made a deep intellectual impression. She changed her major to zoology, graduated magna cum laude in science, won a fellowship for summer study at the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute, then went on to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a master's degree in genetics. [http://www.nationalbook.org/dirletter_rcarson.html] | ||
[[Category:Biologists|Carson, Rachel]] | [[Category:Biologists|Carson, Rachel]] | ||
Revision as of 04:17, May 8, 2007
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is author of Silent Spring the book led to the United States EPA banning the pesticide DDT.
Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929.
- Embedded within all of Carson's writing was the view that human beings were but one part of nature distinguished primarily by their power to alter it, in some cases irreversibly.[1]
- Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer.
Neil Baldwin wrote:
- She started out as an English major, but a required biology course made a deep intellectual impression. She changed her major to zoology, graduated magna cum laude in science, won a fellowship for summer study at the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute, then went on to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a master's degree in genetics. [2]