Rachel Carson

Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring documented how the pesticide DDT accumulated up the food chain, thinning the eggshells of birds of prey and killing songbirds, drawing on published toxicology and field studies rather than her own laboratory research. The book was fiercely contested by chemical manufacturers, who funded rebuttals and questioned her credentials, but a 1963 United States President's Science Advisory Committee review upheld her central findings. Silent Spring is widely credited with leading to the 1972 United States ban on DDT for agricultural use and to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, and is commonly cited as a founding text of the modern environmental movement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/