RACHEL CARSON 1907 1964 BIOLOGIST AND AUTHOR CARSON RACHEL 1907 1964 ENVIRONMENT NATURAL RESOURCES REFORM MOVEMENTS TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY RACHEL CARSON WAS BORN IN SPRINGDALE PENNSYLVANIA SHE STUDIED ENGLISH AT PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN LATER CHATHAM COLLEGE THEN STUDIED SCIENCE AT JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY WHERE SHE EARNED HER MASTER'S DEGREE IN 1932 SHE TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FROM 1931 TO 1936 SHE THEN WORKED FOR THE U.S BUREAU OF FISHERIES AS A MARINE BIOLOGIST A POSITION SHE HELD UNTIL 1952 CARSON PUBLISHED SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL BOOKS ON MARINE ECOLOGY INCLUDING UNDER THE SEA WIND 1941 THE SEA AROUND US 1951 AND EDGE OF THE SEA 1955 HER MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOK WAS SILENT SPRING PUBLISHED IN 1962 THIS BOOK DREW ATTENTION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY AGRICULTURAL PESTICIDES AND MADE CARSON A PIONEER OF THE 1960S ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT EVEN BEFORE THE LAST CHAPTERS OF SILENT SPRING WERE COMPLETED CARSON'S HEALTH BEGAN TO DECLINE AND SHE DIED IN SILVER SPRING MARYLAND IN 1964
