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Rachel Louise Carson was a marine
biologist, author, and conservationist.
Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 near Springdale,
Pennsylvania.
She began writing at the age of eight and published her first story when she
was ten.
In 1929 she graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women which is
known today as Chatham University.
She wrote popular
articles for The Baltimore Sun, Nature and The Atlantic Monthly.
In 1945 Carson began to study DDT but, due to lack of interest on the part
of publishers, her work wasn’t published on the subject until 1962.
Oxford University Press in 1952 ,published her writing The Sea around us,
which was a history of life in the oceans.
In 1962 Houghton Mifflin published her most successful book, Silent Spring,
which documented the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment.
In 2012 Silent Spring was named a National Historic Chemical Landmark by
the American Chemical Society.
She was diagnosed with cancer in later days.
Carson died on 14 April 1964, in Maryland, US.
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