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Marine Scientist Inspired by Torrey Canyon Disaster is Honoured in New Oxford Dictionary 15th January 2021 Stella Turk, MBE at work in Shang-ri La, her cottage in Camborne Credit: courtesy The Packet The work of a marine scientist and conservationist who pioneered a response to the Torrey Canyon supertanker environmental disaster of 1967 has been marked by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. The late Stella Turk, a leading expert on molluscs on the British and Irish coasts, is among 241 people to have been acknowledged as history “shapers” in the publication’s new edition. Turk ( née Phillips) was born in St Mary’s on the Scilly isles in 1925, and developed an interest in natural history from a young age. After she married Frank Archibald Turk, a conchologist and marine life expert, she further developed her expertise on the Cornish coast.

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