Rachel Louise Carson was a marine biologist, a writer, a conservationist, and a naturalist. Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907. Carson was the daughter and youngest child of Maria Frazier and Robert Warden Carson. Carson's interest in nature originated from her interactions with her mother as a child. Carson also had a long of writing. Her first literary work was published when she was just ten years old. Carson attended the Pennsylvania College of Women, which is now Chatham University. In 1928, a year before graduating, Carson switched majors. She went from being an English major to a Zoology major. She graduated with he MA in Zoology from John Hopkins University in 1932. Carson attempted to get her doctorate however her father died and she had to take care of her family. She acquired a job following her completion of her bachelors at the University of Maryland as a teacher. After graduating from John Hopkins University, Carson got a job at the United States Bureau of Fisheries. Her job was to write the scripts for the bureau's radio broadcast and also to write pamphlets regarding the effects of chemicals in the environment. Carson worked at the bureau for over 15 years. She is most notably known for her book, Silent Spring. Silent Spring was published in 1956 by Houghton Mifflin. Silent Spring covered the effects of pesticides in the environment . Carson has been acknowledged for her works even following her death. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter awarded Rachel Carson with the Posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rachel Carson died at the age of 56 due to breast cancer. Rachel Carson had a lasting effect on the world, bring to light the importance of taking care of not only the human race, but other organisms and most importantly our planet.
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