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a required biology course made a deep intellectual impression
'''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, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. [http://www.rachelcarson.org/?v1=About]
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]].
[[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]]