Timeline:
Important Events*
1907 - Rachel Carson is born in Springdale, Pa.
1918 - Published first story in St. Nicholas Magazine
1925 -1929 - 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
1932 - Graduates with MA in zoology from Hopkins; goes again to Woods Hole to study at Bureau of Fisheries.
1935 - 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
1936 -1952 - Appointed Junior Aquatic Biologist with the Bureau of Fisheries, U.S. Department of Commerce. Becomes staff biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service,
1941 - Under the Sea-wind. A Naturalist’s Picture of Ocean Life published by Simon& Schuster.
1947- Publishes first of five pamphlets in Conservation in Action series for USFWS.
1950 - Confirmed breast tumor removed. No further treatment.
1951 - 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.
1952 - National Book Award for Non-fiction for The Sea Around Us; Awarded the John Burroughs Medal, The Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal, Geographical Society New York Zoological Society Gold Medal. Awarded a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for research on tidal life.
1955 - The Edge of the Sea published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
1956 - “Help Your Child to Wonder,” Women’s Home Companion. Published posthumously as The Sense of Wonder, Harper& Row
1960 - Carson has radical mastectomy for breast cancer.
1962 - 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
1963 - Albert Schweitzer award from Animal Welfare Institute, CBS Reports airs “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson”, Carson testifies on the misuse of pesticides; Awarded the National Audubon Society Medal. Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1964 - Rachel dies in Silver Spring, Md., at age 56.
*Author: Linda Lear from http://www.rachelcarson.org.
1918 - Published first story in St. Nicholas Magazine
1925 -1929 - 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
1932 - Graduates with MA in zoology from Hopkins; goes again to Woods Hole to study at Bureau of Fisheries.
1935 - 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
1936 -1952 - Appointed Junior Aquatic Biologist with the Bureau of Fisheries, U.S. Department of Commerce. Becomes staff biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service,
1941 - Under the Sea-wind. A Naturalist’s Picture of Ocean Life published by Simon& Schuster.
1947- Publishes first of five pamphlets in Conservation in Action series for USFWS.
1950 - Confirmed breast tumor removed. No further treatment.
1951 - 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.
1952 - National Book Award for Non-fiction for The Sea Around Us; Awarded the John Burroughs Medal, The Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal, Geographical Society New York Zoological Society Gold Medal. Awarded a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for research on tidal life.
1955 - The Edge of the Sea published by Houghton Mifflin Co.
1956 - “Help Your Child to Wonder,” Women’s Home Companion. Published posthumously as The Sense of Wonder, Harper& Row
1960 - Carson has radical mastectomy for breast cancer.
1962 - 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
1963 - Albert Schweitzer award from Animal Welfare Institute, CBS Reports airs “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson”, Carson testifies on the misuse of pesticides; Awarded the National Audubon Society Medal. Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1964 - Rachel dies in Silver Spring, Md., at age 56.
*Author: Linda Lear from http://www.rachelcarson.org.