Lucille Farrier Stickel [SEP] position held
Lucille Farrier Stickel
Lucille Farrier Stickel (January 11, 1915 – February 22, 2007) 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 both become a senior scientist as a civil servant of the US government and to be director for a national research laboratory.
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- 1915 Michigan Agricultural Aggies football team –
- 1915 Western State Hilltoppers football team -
- 1915 Michigan State Normal Normalites football team –
- 1910 Detroit Titans football team –
Births.
- January 11 - Lucille Farrier Stickel, wildlife toxicologist whose research on contaminants in wildlife ecosystems and on the pesticide DDT helped form the basis for Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", in Hillman, Michigan
- March 14 - Roy Kellerman, U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to John F. Kennedy when he