Rachel Carson Essay

Rachel carson was really ahead of her time, to have a strong woman in the 1950’s and 1960’s was almost unheard of. She created a new era of woman scientists. She is a role model for young girls just dipping their toes into the field of science. She is someone I like to think of when I face challenges in robotics or otherwise. Thanks to her, we still hear the chirping of the birds in the spring. She was an outstanding marine biologist, writer, and nature activist. Rachel Louise Carson was born in springville pennsylvania, on May 27th, 1907. She was the youngest of Robert and Maria McLean Carson's’ three children. She was born on a farm, which gave her a love for nature even at a young age. Her mother, who was a former school teacher, also

Nicholas Magazine for Children, when she was only ten. Her story was about a canadian pilot who was shot down by a german airplane. It seems rather dark for a ten year old to be writing about, but she earned just over three dollars from it, which is just 52.87 dollars in today's money due to inflation. She had a few other writings published in the magazine, and this gave Rachel shove in the right direction for her future career. Many years later Rachel Carson attended from the Pennsylvania College for Women, which is now called Chatham University. She studied english, but then switched to biology later on. She was one of three women in biology, burt she persevered. She continued on to John Hopkins university where she earned a master's degree in zoology. She taught summer school for a while, and changed jobs often. Later on, her family was having financial difficulties, so Rachel took up what was supposed to be a temporary job at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1936. She worked part time and would write 7 minutes educational radio broadcasts, combining her background in zoology and writing. These broadcasts would focus mainly on aquatic life. The company loved her ability to make science fun and enjoyable for the public. She wanted to have a full time position there, so she fought and became the first ever woman to pass the U.S. civil service exam. Once she had passed, she became a junior aquatic biologist, and

She thought about aquatic life, but in a way that intrigued people who weren't educated in science. She used description and words people could understand. Her next book was called The Sea All Around Us, and was published just one year later. It became a bestseller, and was in the New York Times for 86 weeks. After this book she was able to leave the the Fish and Wildlife Service, after 15 years, and pursue a career as a full time author. She published one more book entitled The Edge of the Sea, before she started her most influential work, Silent Spring in 1958. Her love for nature, provoked her to look into the use of chemicals and their effect on the environment. Pesticides, such as DDT, were used to kill insects and pest, to increase the amount of crops produced. She had been waiting for someone else to publish a book on the effects of pesticides, but then came upon the realization that if she wanted it, she would have to do it