Ruth Dixon Turner (1915 - April 30, 2000) was a pioneering marine biologist who became the world's expert on teredos, wood-boring bivalve mollusks that wreak havoc on docks and boats, creating dangerous conditions for the maritime shipping industry. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Marine biology is the scientific study of living Organisms in the Ocean or other marine or Brackish bodies of water Molluscs are animals belonging to the phylum Mollusca. There are around 250000 extant Species within the phylum with an estimated 70000

She 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". Alexander Emanuel Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 &ndash March 27, 1910) son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz She graduated from Bridgewater State College, earned a Masters degree at Cornell University and a PhD at Harvard (Radcliffe College) where she specialized in shipworm research. Bridgewater State College is a public Liberal arts college located in Bridgewater Massachusetts. Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge Massachusetts, and was the Coordinate college for Harvard University

ruth became one of Harvard's first tenured women professors in 1976, and was one of the most academically successful female marine researchers, publishing over 200 scientific articles and a book during her illustrious career. She was also the first female scientist to use the deep ocean research submarine Alvin [1]. Alvin ( DSV-2) is a 16-ton manned deep-ocean research Submersible owned by the United States Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic