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Carson, an American marine biologist and author of widely read books on ecological themes, was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, and educated at the former Pennsylvania College for Women and Johns Hopkins University. She taught zoology at the University of Maryland from 1931 to 1936 before joining the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and its successor, the Fish and Wildlife Service, as a marine biologist in 1936 where she remained until 1952. Her books on the sea, Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), for which she was awarded the 1952 National Book Award in nonfiction, and The Edge of the Sea (1955), are praised for beauty of language as well as scientific accuracy. But her book, Silent Spring (1962), in which she questioned the use of chemical pesticides, spawned the worldwide environment movement, earning her a place on our list of the most influential women of the millennium.
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"Carson, Rachel Louise," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.
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