Nancy Kirk
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Dr. Nancy Kirk (1916–2005) was a British geologist who developed original theories regarding the life and habits of graptolites.[1][2] She was a protégée of Owen Thomas (O.T.) Jones, a Welsh geology professor with an undergraduate in Natural Sciences.[3]
During her time at Newnham College, Cambridge, she originally intended to study Botany, but soon switched to Geology where she receive "first class marks" in her final exams in 1939.[2] She was awarded her PhD in geology in 1949 for her work along the Church Stretton fault zone and the area west of the Knighton Sheet[4] afterwards she worked at Birmingham University. In 1953 she was appointed assistant lecturer in the Geology Department at Aberystwyth University, and became a full lecturer a couple years later in 1955. Even after her retirement in 1983, Kirk continued in the department.[2]