Charter member of the National Womens Hall of Fame in 1973.
Writer, scientist and ecologist.
"Silent Spring" is her most famous book (which argued against the use of pesticides).
Won a National Book Award in 1952 for her non-fiction book "The Sea Around Us."
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes,unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are,strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird,song. [on the effect of chemical insecticides and fertilizers, 1962].
