Turner, Ruth Dixon

found: Hoagland, K. E. Ecological studies of wood-boring bivalves in the vicinity of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, 1980:t.p. (R. D. Turner, Wetlands Institute, Stone Harbor, N.J.)

found: Harvard University gazette, May 4, 2000:p. 2 (Ruth Dixon Turner, d. Apr. 30, 2000, age 85)

found: Wkikpedia, May 2, 2013(Ruth Dixon Turner (1915 -April 30, 2000) was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist who became the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve mollusks which severely damage wooden marine installations. Turner held the Alexander Agassiz Professorship at Harvard University and was a Curator of Malacology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, where she also served as co-editor of the scientific journal Johnsonia. She graduated from Bridgewater State College, earned a Master's degree at Cornell University and a Ph.D. at Harvard (Radcliffe College) where she specialized in shipworm research.