November 30, 2009
American writer and marine biologist, born Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her Silent Spring (1962) – a provocative study of the dangers of certain insecticides – is acknowledged as the impetus for the modern environmental movement.
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November 30, 2009
American anthropologist grad. Barnard, 1923, Ph.D. Columbia, 1929. She stressed the need for anthropologists to understand the perspective of women and children.
In 1926, she became assistant curator, in 1942 associate curator, and from 1964 to 1969 she was curator of ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. After 1954 she served [...]
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