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Bear and gull catching salmon By: Fritz Goro From: Life Nature Library: The Fishes 1963
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Bear and gull catching salmon By: Fritz Goro From: Life Nature Library: The Fishes 1963
Sealed Vials of Penicillin Being Passed from the Sterile Production Room to Packaging Room by Fritz Goro
Photographs of Queensland, Australia; people living and working near the Great Barrier Reef in 1951.
(📷 Fritz Goro/LIFE Picture Collection)
Agnes Martin en su estudio, Mayo 1961 [© Fritz Goro].
Photo by Fritz Goro, 1962
Science Saturday
RACHEL CARSON
In 1951 Oxford University Press published American marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson‘s critically-acclaimed book, The Sea Around Us. It became one of the most successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it enjoyed wide attention for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over a million copies, was translated into 28 languages, inspired an Academy Award-winning documentary, and won both the 1952 National Book Award and the John Burroughs Medal.
In 1958, Simon and Schuster published this special edition for young readers, adapted by Russian Empire-born American writer Anne Terry White, with illustrations by Rene Martin and maps by Emil Lowenstein. It also includes an additional chapter by Jeffrey Levinton, a leading expert in marine ecology, who incorporates the most recent thinking on continental drift, coral reefs, the spread of the ocean floor, the deterioration of the oceans, mass extinction of sea life, and many other topics. In addition, noted nature writer Ann Zwinger contributed a brief foreword. The last photographic image shown here is by American science photographer Fritz Goro.
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An astronaut tests noise levels (coming from giant speakers) that mimic the high-decibel sound of a rocket launch, 1967
Image: Fritz Goro