Carson, Rachel (L)
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a renowned environmentalist, who won worldwide acclaim for her 1962 book, Silent Spring[1268], which dealt with the dangers of pesticides.
However, it was in an earlier book, The Sea Around Us[1267], that she touched on the subject of Atlantis. In it, she identified the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, which was submerged around 4,000 years ago, as possibly the inspiration behind the story of Plato’s sunken city and appears to have been the first person to make this suggestion.