"1914Z"^^ . . "American marine biologist" . "Ruth Dixon Turner (1914 \u2013 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."@en . "Ruth Dixon Turner"@en . "Turner, Ruth Dixon"@en . . "2000-04-30Z"^^ . "2000Z"^^ .