Ruth turner biography

  • Ruth Dixon Turner ( – April 30, ) was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist.
  • Ruth Dixon Turner was a pioneering U.S. marine biologist and malacologist.
  • Ruth Turner was formerly Director of Government Relations within Tony Blair's Downing Street office.

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    Who was Ruth Turner?

    [written bygd Bruno Costelini, Science without Borders intern at the Ernst Mayr Library]

    Ruth Dixon Turner () was one of the foremost marine scientists of the 20th century. She taught at Harvard but carried out research all over the world, working with wood-boring mollusks, such as shipworms. In the late s after the discovery of hydrothermal vents she was the first woman to dive in the deep submergence vehicle Alvin, which she kept on doing for the next couple of decades.

    While going through her papper, housed at the Library, we came across the following transcript of an interview she gave in the spring of for an article in the MCZ Newsletter, which apparently was never published. If offers glimpses into her life and views on science, work ethics and being a woman professor.

    Growing up in Melrose, MA, among natur, she remembers having books around the house:

    We were up on the Melrose-Saugus line, which Is pretty country – well, it’s not anymore; since

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    Spartacus Educational

    Primary Sources

    (1) George Mallory, letter to his wife, Ruth Mallory (14th July, )

    It really seems as though we have given the Hun something of a whacking and also that his reserves are pretty well used up. Shall we find suddenly one day that the war is over - finished as dramatically as it began? Not a very near day I fear - or rather I don't dare to hope.

    (2) George Mallory, letter to his wife, Ruth Mallory (26th July, )

    Before I went to sleep I heard distinctly from the murmur of voices in the tent some mention of our troops being shelled out of a trench by our own guns I can't tell you what a miserable time I had after that. You see, if my registration had been untrue, it was my fault I went over and over again in my mind all the circumstantial evidence that it was really our shells I had seen bursting and had horrid doubts and fears.

    (3) Ruth Mallory, letter to her husband George Mallory (10th August, )

    I wonder dear how much we shall k

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    Ruth Turner (political advisor)

    British political advisor

    For the American marine biologist, see Ruth Turner.

    Ruth Turner (born in Dublin, Ireland as Caitriona Ruth Turner) was formerly Director of Government Relations within Tony Blair's Downing Street office.[1]

    Biography

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    As daughter of leading Catholic writer and academic Denys Turner, Turner spent her childhood moving between university towns as her father's career gathered pace. Turner left home in the late s to study at the University of Salford, graduating with a BA in English & History in and followed by a sabbatical year as the Students Union's Deputy President for Communications, elected as the Labour Students candidate.

    Big Issue in the North

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    Turner came to prominence as co-founder and former chairperson of the Big Issue in the North, which she started in , before leaving in Turner subsequently co-founded with Simon Danczuk Urban Visions Limited, trading as Vision Twentyone,