Rachel Carson
1. What was the title of her 1962 book that became a controversial sensation?
2. Who was Roger?
3. What was her career?
4. Where did she live in the summer? And in the winter? Where did she grow up?
5. How wealthy was she?
6. Why did she quit her Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins?
7. Why did she become a biologist?
8. Why did she publish under her initials instead of her given first name at first?
9. "We live in a scientific age; yet we assume that the knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories." What does that mean?
10. What was the topic of Rachel Carson's most controversial book? Why was this issue important?
11. What impact does Rachel's work have today?
Rachel Carson's Obituary
Distribution of Wealth in the US
1. What was the title of her 1962 book that became a controversial sensation?
2. Who was Roger?
3. What was her career?
4. Where did she live in the summer? And in the winter? Where did she grow up?
5. How wealthy was she?
6. Why did she quit her Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins?
7. Why did she become a biologist?
8. Why did she publish under her initials instead of her given first name at first?
9. "We live in a scientific age; yet we assume that the knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories." What does that mean?
10. What was the topic of Rachel Carson's most controversial book? Why was this issue important?
11. What impact does Rachel's work have today?
Rachel Carson's Obituary
Distribution of Wealth in the US