Rachel Carson
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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.
Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. [1]