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'''Rachel Carson''' is author of ''Silent Spring''. The book led to the United States government banning the pesticide DDT.
'''Rachel Carson''' (1907-1964) was the author of ''[[Silent Spring]]'', the book that 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.<ref>[http://www.rachelcarson.org/?v1=About]</ref>
*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.<ref>[http://www.nationalbook.org/dirletter_rcarson.html]</ref>
Her book about the ocean, ''The Sea Around Us'',
adopts "an almost Biblical tone"
which "immerses" the reader in "a comforting, warm bath"
yet endorses the [[Evolution]]ary point of view of
"the beginnings of all life out of the synthesis of minerals and elements within the sea".
==References==
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[[Category:Biologists|Carson, Rachel]]
[[Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom award winners]]
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