| Rachel Carson  AKA Rachel Louise Carson
Born: 27-May-1907
Birthplace: Springdale, PA
Died: 14-Apr-1964
Location of death: Silver Spring, MD
Cause of death: Cancer - Breast
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
Occupation: Scientist, Activist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Silent Spring Father: Robert Warden Carson (b. 1864, d. Jul-1935, heart attack)
Mother: Maria Frazier McLean Carson (d. Dec-1958)
Sister: Marian (older, d. Jan-1937, pneumonia)
Brother: Robert McLean Carson
Son: Roger Christie (adopted 1957)
High School: Parnassus High School, Parnassus, PA (1925)
University: BA Science, Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh, PA (1929)
Scholar: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
University: MA Zoology, Johns Hopkins University (1932)
Professor: Johns Hopkins University
Professor: University of Maryland College Park
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Sierra Club
The Nature Conservancy
Democratic Advisory Council Natural Resources Committee (1960)
National Book Award for Nonfiction 1952 for The Sea Around Us
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1980
National Women's Hall of Fame 1973
Appendectomy
Mastectomy (Apr-1960)
Irish Ancestry Paternal
Risk Factors: Appendicitis, Breast Cancer
Author of books:
Under the Sea-wind (1941)
The Edge of the Sea (1955)
The Sea Around Us (1961)
Silent Spring (1962)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #1857 (17 cents, issued 28-May-1981)
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