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]
- 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.
- Rachel Carson died in 1964 after a long battle against breast cancer.