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• Born on May 27th, 1907
• The youngest child of Maria and Robert Carson
• Since childhood she loved books and reading; and wanted to become a writer
• In 1925, she joined the Pennsylvania College for Women
• She intended on majoring English and become a writer
• Her biology teacher, Miss Mary Scott Skinner, had great impact on her. Her biology class ignited Rachel Carson’s mind
• Although her creative energies were focused on biology, she was well known as a writer in her sophomore years
• Lines in Tennyson’s poem “ Locksley Hall” clarified her direction , telling her that the “vision splendid” she pursued lay with the sea
• She decided to become a marine biologist and Rachel completed her undergraduate program• with laurels
• She completed her master program in John Hopkins university
• She couldn’t continue her research program because of economic constraints
• She started her career as a radio script writer
• Later she joined the US Bureau of Fisheries as a junior scientist and rose to Chief Publication officer
• The fisheries research she could do as a scientist and her writing skill helped her to bring out the trilogy - Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea
• She took early retirement from government service to become a full time science writer
• She became aware of many environmental problems of which use of pesticides without discretion was the serious one
• Water soil and the earth’s green mantle of plants make up the world that supports the animal life of the earth and she thought, “If I keep silent there won’t be any peace for me”
• When it was published in 1962 it was hailed and criticized widely
• On June 3rd, 1963 Rachel Carson gave her testimony before President John F. Kennedy’s Science Advisory Committee, which submitted a report largely backing her scientific claims.