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Environment, Agriculture & Food
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John James Audubon 1785–1851Reform & RightsNaturalist and illustrator whose Birds of America shaped American ornithology and the society bearing his name.James Beard 1903–1985Reform & RightsCookbook author and teacher whose advocacy helped define a distinct modern American culinary tradition.Wendell Berry b. 1934Reform & RightsWriter and farmer whose work connected environmental stewardship, local agriculture, community, and opposition to industrial excess.Norman Borlaug 1914–2009Reform & RightsAgronomist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose Green Revolution wheat varieties saved billions from famine.David Brower 1912–2000Reform & RightsConservation leader who transformed the Sierra Club and helped build the modern American environmental movement.Luther Burbank 1849–1926Reform & RightsPlant breeder whose hundreds of new varieties changed American horticulture, agriculture, and popular attitudes toward scientific breeding.Rachel Carson 1907–1964Reform & RightsMarine biologist whose book Silent Spring launched the modern environmental movement.George Washington Carver 1864–1943Reform & RightsAgricultural scientist whose research on crop rotation and alternative crops transformed Southern farming.Julia Child 1912–2004Reform & RightsCookbook author and television host who transformed American home cooking and popular attitudes toward food.Marjory Stoneman Douglas 1890–1998Reform & RightsWriter and activist whose advocacy was central to preserving the Florida Everglades as a national ecological treasure.Temple Grandin b. 1947Reform & RightsAnimal scientist whose livestock handling designs reshaped American slaughterhouse welfare standards.Aldo Leopold 1887–1948Reform & RightsEcologist whose “land ethic” became foundational to modern environmental thought.John Muir 1838–1914Reform & RightsNaturalist and organizer whose advocacy helped create national parks and the modern wilderness movement.Gaylord Nelson 1916–2005Reform & RightsSenator and founder of Earth Day who helped make environmental protection a mass political movement.Gifford Pinchot 1865–1946Reform & RightsFirst chief of the U.S. Forest Service and leading advocate of scientific conservation and managed public lands.Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862Reform & RightsWriter and philosopher whose works on nature, individual conscience, and civil disobedience influenced environmentalism and political protest.Alice Waters b. 1944Reform & RightsChef and activist who popularized farm-to-table dining, seasonal ingredients, and food education in the United States.Harvey Washington Wiley 1844–1930Reform & RightsChemist whose adulteration studies produced the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the agency that became the FDA.