Name: Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Writes: Right
Dominant Cortex: Left
University: University of Maryland
Key Contributions: "Rachel Carson wrote books on her observations of life under the sea, a world as yet unknown to the majority of people. She resigned from her government position in 1952 in order to devote all her time to writing. The idea for her most famous book, Silent Spring, emerged, and she began writing it in 1957. It was published in 1962, and influenced President Kennedy, who had read it, to call for testing of the chemicals mentioned in the book. Carson has been called the mother of the modern environmental movement." (
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