Rachel Carson is an innovative and highly creative marine biologist who is known primarily as an author. Carson completed her graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and then applied to the United States Bureau of Fisheries as a biologist. She soon learned that her job would be writing about fishing and the sea for radio programs. This job both surprised and delighted her because she had always thought that she would have to choose between her two loves, science and biology.
The most familiar subject of Rachel Carson's writings was life in the 
oceans.
"The Sea Around Us" was her most popular book and established her name with the American public. She is most noted for
her work, Silent Spring, published in 1962. Silent Spring warns of the danger of pesticides, especially DDT, to the
environment. Because of her expose in Silent Spring, DDT and a range of similarly lethal pesticides have been banned
in the United States.
