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Lucille F. Stickel

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American wildlife toxicologist

United StatesScientistsLived 1915 to 2007 · aged 92
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Elizabeth Lucille Farrier Stickel, was an American wildlife toxicologist and director of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center from 1972 to 1982.

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2014Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
1974Aldo Leopold Award

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Elizabeth Lucille Farrier Stickel, was an American wildlife toxicologist and director of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center from 1972 to 1982. Her research focused extensively on contaminants in wildlife ecosystems, and her research on the effects of the pesticide DDT helped form the basis for Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. She was also the first woman to become both a senior scientist as a civil servant of the US government and to be director for a national research laboratory.

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United States
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1915 to 2007 · aged 92
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