Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-born zoologist and biologist whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. Silent Spring had an immense effect in the United States, where it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy.

Further reading

• RachelCarson.org The life and legacy of Rachel Carson
• Time magazine's "100 most important people" article on Carson
• Silent Spring Institute Research on the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer
• The Mosquito Killer by Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink.
• New York Times obituary
• Silent Spring at 40: Rachel Carson’s classic is not aging well Reason Online, 12 June 2002.
• The Rachel Carson Homestead The Rachel Carson Homestead Association was formed in 1975 to preserve and restore this National Register historic site and to offer education programs which advance Rachel Carson's environmental ethic. Visit and experience first-hand the surroundings that made Rachel Carson a fierce and poetic defender of the natural world.