BIOLOGIST

Rachel Carson

1907 - 1964

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Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer and financial security. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rachel Carson has received more than 3,270,713 page views. Her biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Rachel Carson is the 26th most popular biologist (down from 23rd in 2019), the 351st most popular biography from United States (down from 270th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Biologist.

Rachel Carson is most famous for her book Silent Spring, which was published in 1962. In the book, she argued that the indiscriminate use of pesticides, such as DDT, threatened both human health and the environment. The book helped to launch the environmental movement in the United States.

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  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 86

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Rachel Carson ranks 26 out of 1,097. Before her are Luc Montagnier, Robert Brown, Richard Dawkins, Maria Sibylla Merian, Conrad Gessner, and Jules Bordet. After her are Yoshinori Ohsumi, Katherine Oppenheimer, Theodor Schwann, Ada Yonath, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and Barbara McClintock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Rachel Carson ranks 15. Before her are J. Hans D. Jensen, Alberto Moravia, Laurence Olivier, Hergé, Yakov Dzhugashvili, and Baldur von Schirach. After her are Frank Whittle, Junji Nishikawa, Jacques Tati, Lin Biao, Hideki Yukawa, and Robert A. Heinlein. Among people deceased in 1964, Rachel Carson ranks 10. Before her are Paul of Greece, Alma Mahler, Victor Francis Hess, Norbert Wiener, Leo Szilard, and Ian Fleming. After her are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, James Franck, Vasily Grossman, Gerhard Domagk, Palmiro Togliatti, and Gerrit Rietveld.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rachel Carson ranks 351 out of 20,380. Before her are Gertrude B. Elion (1918), Calvin Klein (1942), Paul Auster (1947), John Cage (1912), Julia Roberts (1967), and Fred Astaire (1899). After her are Jack Lemmon (1925), Spencer Tracy (1900), Oliver Stone (1946), Cliff Burton (1962), Nicole Kidman (1967), and Duke Ellington (1899).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Rachel Carson ranks 3. Before her are James Watson (1928), and Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866). After her are Barbara McClintock (1902), Dian Fossey (1932), Sylvia Earle (1935), George Beadle (1903), Irwin Rose (1926), Linda B. Buck (1947), Stanley B. Prusiner (1942), Hermann Joseph Muller (1890), and John B. Calhoun (1917).

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