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Article: Carson, Rachel
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Carson, Rachel
American Author, Biologist, and Environmentalist
1907
–
1964
Rachel Carson made a career of her lifelong fascination with wildlife and the environment around her and became one of the pioneers of the environmental movement in the United States. Her mother taught her to enjoy the outdoors. On graduation from Parnassas High School in Pennsylvania, Carson enrolled in the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh, planning to study
English and become a writer. A course in biology rekindled her interest in science and led her to change to a science major.
Carson went on to do postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, obtaining a master's degree in 1932. She ...
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