Rachel Carson
MARINE BIOLOGIST (1907 - 1964)
Carson grew up loving wildlife, her mother
passing down knowledge and understanding
of nature. Carson showed her interest and
research in literature and writing, leading her
to further education. Carson studied marine
biology at Pennsylvania College, worked
within the Woods Hole Marine Biological
Laboratory to then graduate with a master's
degree in zoology at Johns Hopkins
University. Carson worked as the Editor-inChief
of publications for the US Fish and
Wildlife Service, which became a fifteen-year
career. Carson still worked in literature,
producing many educational conversations
such as "Undersea" (1937), "Under the SeaWind"
(1941), and published "The Sea Around
Us" (1952), a prize-winning study of ocean
life, and "The Edge of the Sea" (1955).
Winifred Joyce Drinkwater
AVIATOR & ENGINEER (1913 - 1996)
Scottish aviator and engineer Winifred
Drinkwater was born in the south of Glasgow,
growing up with her father, a mechanical
engineer and her mother a district nurse.
Drinkwater joined the Scottish Flying Club
near Renfrew in June 1930 when she was just
17, and amazingly, qualified for her private
pilot's license later that year, making her
Scotland's youngest pilot, regardless of
gender. She continued to fly and in 1932,
aged 19, she was successful in gaining her
Commercial license at Cinque Ports Flying
Club at Lympne in Kent, which made her the
youngest professional pilot in the United
Kingdom, again regardless of gender. The
same year Drinkwater also gained her
instructor's certificate and she went on to
become a ground engineer in 1933. She later
went on to work as a charter and commercial
pilot, as well as flying the air ambulance.
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