Today, the Google put out a Doodle featuring a tall, slim woman - the marine biologist Rachel Louise Carson gazing across a water body (a lake? sea? a river?). She has a pair of binoculars about her neck, a diary in her hand and a haversack slung behind. Her elegant neckerchief keeps company with the various birds in the stiff breeze.
A multitude of flora and fauna can be seen, mainly marine animals, including birds, seals, fish, amphibians, ferns, sea anemones and other marine life.
Rachel Louise Carson was born in Pennsylvania on 27 May 1907, trained and worked as a marine biologist with the US Bureau of Fisheries, which makes it her 107th birthday today. She became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s.
Rachel Carson’s expose on the impact of pesticides on nature in her 1962 book Silent Spring, led to the nationwide ban on use of DDT and other pesticides in the USA, and inspired the environmental movements worldwide. The US Environmental Protection Agency is a resultant creation of her original scientific research.
Rachel Carson died in Maryland on April 14, 1964 at the age of 56, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Rachel Carson’s writing includes:
US Govt. Printing Office publications (free):
A multitude of flora and fauna can be seen, mainly marine animals, including birds, seals, fish, amphibians, ferns, sea anemones and other marine life.
Rachel Louise Carson was born in Pennsylvania on 27 May 1907, trained and worked as a marine biologist with the US Bureau of Fisheries, which makes it her 107th birthday today. She became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s.
Rachel Carson’s expose on the impact of pesticides on nature in her 1962 book Silent Spring, led to the nationwide ban on use of DDT and other pesticides in the USA, and inspired the environmental movements worldwide. The US Environmental Protection Agency is a resultant creation of her original scientific research.
Rachel Carson died in Maryland on April 14, 1964 at the age of 56, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Rachel Carson’s writing includes:
US Govt. Printing Office publications (free):
- Fishes of the Middle West, 1943;
- Fish and Shellfish of the Middle Atlantic Coast, 1945;
- Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge, 1947;
- Mattamuskeet: A National Wildlife Refuge, 1947;
- Parker River: A National Wildlife Refuge, 1947;
- Bear River: A National Wildlife Refuge, 1950;
- Under the Sea Wind, 1941
- The Sea Around Us, 1951;
- The Edge of the Sea, 1955;
- Silent Spring, 1962;
- The Sense of Wonder, 1965; (posthumous);
- Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson, 1998.
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