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.
- 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]