Rachel Carson
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) wis an American marine biologist ad nature writer whose writings are credited wi advancin the global environmental movement.
Carson startit her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau o Fisheries, an became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us wan her financial security an recognition as a gifted writer. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, an the republished version o her first book, Under the Sea Wind, wur an aa bestsellers. Thegither, her sea trilogy explores the whole o ocean life, frae the shores tae the surface tae the deep sea.
In the late 1950s, Carson turned her attention tae conservation an the environmental problems caused bi synthetic pesticides. The result wis Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns tae an unprecedentit portion o the American public. Silent Spring spurred a reversal in naitional pesticide policy—leadin tae a naitionwide ban on DDT an ither pesticides—an the grassroots environmental movement the book inspired led tae the creation o the Environmental Protection Agency. Carson wis posthumously awardit the Presidential Medal o Freedom bi Jimmy Carter.
- 1907 births
- 1964 daiths
- Alumnae of women's universities and colleges
- American conservationists
- American environmentalists
- American marine biologists
- American naturalists
- American nature writers
- American non-fiction environmental writers
- American women writers
- American Presbyterians
- American vegetarians
- American zoologists
- Cancer daiths in Maryland
- Chatham University alumni
- Daiths frae breast cancer
- Guggenheim Fellows
- John Burroughs Medal recipients
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- University o Maryland, College Park faculty
- Presidential Medal o Freedom recipients
- Writers frae Maryland
- Writers frae Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Systems ecologists
- Recipients o the Cullum Geographical Medal
- Livin fowk
