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'''Rachel Carson''' (1907-1964) was the author of ''[[Silent Spring]]'', the book that 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.[http://www.rachelcarson.org/?v1=About]

*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.<ref>[http://www.rachelcarson.org/?v1=About]</ref>

*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:

[[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]

: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.<ref>[http://www.nationalbook.org/dirletter_rcarson.html]</ref>

[[Category:Biologists|Carson, Rachel]]

[[Category:Biologists|Carson, Rachel]]