--- title: Rachel Louise Carson Google Doodle Honors Female Scientist description: Rachel Louise Carson inspired world bans against DDT and the start of the EPA canonical: https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-27T12:16:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:15:16.476Z og:title: Google Doodle Honors Famous Female Conservationist Rachel Louise Carson og:description: Rachel Louise Carson inspired world bans against DDT and the start of the EPA og:url: https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta252d7686c64952c/698690e9d0b6f22ab83046fe/screen-shot-2014-05-27-at-7-46-59-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Google Doodle og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Honors Famous Female Conservationist Rachel Louise Carson twitter:description: Rachel Louise Carson inspired world bans against DDT and the start of the EPA twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta252d7686c64952c/698690e9d0b6f22ab83046fe/screen-shot-2014-05-27-at-7-46-59-am.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Honors Conservationist Rachel Louise Carson ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler May 27, 2014 12:16 PM UTC  Google by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler May 27, 2014 12:16 PM UTC The blue scene portrayed in Tuesday’s [Google Doodle](https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&ei=n3iEU7eVNsPNsQTl7YH4DA&ved=0CBcQ1S4) honors a very green woman. To celebrate what would have been nature author and conservationist Rachel Louise Carson’s 107th birthday, Google put her in her natural habitat—surrounded by birds and sea creatures. Carson was born in 1907 and began her career as a marine biologist. She became a writer in the 50’s and her 1951 work, _The Sea Around Us_, won a National Book Award. Carson’s _Silent Spring_ brought the dangers of pesticides to mainstream attention in 1962\. Although chemical companies protested her claims—which have been [questioned decades later](http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/09/05/rachel-carsons-deadly-fantasies/)—her activism inspired worldwide bans of DDT and the [creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.](http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/rachel-carson/) Carson died in 1964 and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter in 1980. This is a continuation of Google Doodles [highlighting notable women in science.](http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1373545/google-doodles-give-women-science-and-technology-their-dues) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Honors Conservationist Rachel Louise Carson","datePublished":"2014-05-27T12:16:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:16.476Z","description":"Rachel Louise Carson inspired world bans against DDT and the start of the EPA","url":"https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","women","Internet","Appreciation","Science topic","Google Doodle","female","TIME 100"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta252d7686c64952c/698690e9d0b6f22ab83046fe/screen-shot-2014-05-27-at-7-46-59-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta252d7686c64952c/698690e9d0b6f22ab83046fe/screen-shot-2014-05-27-at-7-46-59-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Google Doodle","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/","name":"Google Doodle Honors Conservationist Rachel Louise Carson"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/118453/rachel-louise-carson-google-doodle/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```