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Thinning egg shells caused by the pesticides made raptor eggs especially vulnerable.

Carson was vilified by chemical companies, but ultimately, her courage prevailed as DDT was banned in the US and any countries. Pres. Carter awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1980.

This quiet marine biologist lived by the sea the last twelve years of her life, where she met a neighbor, Dorothy Freeman and her husband.