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Timeline of Rachel Carson

By johnnycabin

  • The Bith of Rachel Carson

    Rachel Carson is born
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    Rachel Carson Timespan

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  • Published first story in St.Nicholas Magazine

  • Rachel Carson Starts her major studies

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    Rachel Carson with her studies.

    Carson attendes Pennsylvania College for Women and majors in Science.
    She goes to Wood Hole, MA to study Marine Biology.
    Begins graduate work in zoology at Johns Hopkins University

  • Rachel Carson ends her major school studies

  • Rachel Carson Graduates with MA

    Rachel Carson Graduates with MA in zoology from Hopkins. She then goes back to Woods Hole to study at the Bureau of Fisheries
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    More scripts from Rachel Carson and Family Death

    Writes scripts and radio scripts for the Bureau of Fisheries about natural history.
    Rachel Carson's father, Robert Carson, dies
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    Rachel Carson advances

    Becomes Junior Aquatic Biologist with the Bureau of Fisheries.
    Becomes staff biologist with the US fish and Wildlife service.

  • Rachel Carson's sister dies

    Rachel Carson's sister, Marian Carson Williams, dies. Rachel adopts her two children

  • Rachel Carson retires

    Rachel Carson retires as chief editor of her newspaper publications

  • Confirmed breast tumor removed. No further treatment.

  • Rachel Carson adopts Roger Christie

    Rachel Carson adopts Roger Christie after his mother dies

  • Breast cancer is re-discovered in Rachel Carson

  • Rachel Carson opposes pesticides

    Rachel Carson opposes pesticides which hurt the environment

  • Rachel Carson dies

    Rachel Carson dies in Silver Spring, Md. at age 56 because of breast cancer