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1907 May 27
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Carson born in Springdale, Pa.
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1918 September
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Published first story in St. Nicholas Magazine
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1925 -1929
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Carson attends Pennsylvania College for Women; majors in science.
Carson goes to Woods Hole, MA to study marine biology.
Begins graduate work in zoology at Johns Hopkins University
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1932 May
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Graduates with MA in zoology from Hopkins; goes again to Woods Hole to study at
Bureau of Fisheries.
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1935
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Writes radio scripts for Bureau of Fisheries and publishes articles on natural history
of the Chesapeake Bay for The Baltimore Sun. Writes “The World of Water”
later published as “Undersea” in The Atlantic Monthly, September, 1937.
Father, Robert Carson dies.
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1936 -1952
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Appointed Junior Aquatic Biologist with the Bureau of Fisheries, U.S. Department
of Commerce. Becomes staff biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service,
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1939
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retires as editor in chief of all USFWS publications.
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1937
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Sister, Marian Carson Williams dies, leaving two daughters Virginia and Marjorie
who live with Rachel and her mother.
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1941
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Under the Sea-wind. A Naturalist’s Picture of Ocean Life published by Simon&
Schuster.
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1947
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Publishes first of five pamphlets in Conservation in Action series for USFWS.
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1950
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Confirmed breast tumor removed. No further treatment.
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1951
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The Sea Around Us., excerpted in “Profiles” of The New Yorker.
The Sea Around Us published by Oxford University Press. Resigns from Government
service to write full time.
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1952
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National Book Award for Non-fiction for The Sea Around Us; Roger Christie,
Marjorie’s son born. RKO film version released; Awarded the John Burroughs Medal,
April 1952. The Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal, Geographical Society New York Zoological
Society Gold Medal. Awarded a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for research on tidal
life.
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1955
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The Edge of the Sea published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
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1956
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July “Help Your Child to Wonder,” Women’s Home Companion. Published posthumously
as The Sense of Wonder, Harper& Row, 1965.
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1957
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Rachel adopts Roger Christie after the death of his mother.
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1960 April
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Carson has radical mastectomy for breast cancer.
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1962 June
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First of three installments of Silent Spring published as Reporter at Large in The
New Yorker September Silent Spring published by Houghton Mifflin December
Silent Spring, a book-of-the-month club selection
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1963 January
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Albert Schweitzer award from Animal Welfare Institute April 3 CBS Reports airs “The
Silent Spring of Rachel Carson.”
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1963 June 3
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Carson testifies on the misuse of pesticides; US Senate Subcommittee of Government
Operations. 88th Cong. 1st.sess.
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1963 June 6
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Carson testifies before the US Senate Committee on Commerce December Awarded the
National Audubon Society Medal. Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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1964 April 14
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Carson dies in Silver Spring, Md. at age 56.
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