Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) spent most of her professional
life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical,
popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The
Sea Around Us, and had become the Bee Plumber 76: most
respected science writer in America. She completed Silent
Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped
a powerful social movement that has altered the course of
history.