Dr Alison Morrison-Low is a retired Principal Curator for Science at
National Museums Scotland.
Background
Morrison-Low is a director for the
Brisbane Observatory Trust and has been a director for the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust, the British Society For The History Of Science and the
Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
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In July 2016 she was an invited expert on for "The Invention of Photography",
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BBC Radio 4. She won the
Saltire Society Research Book Prize in 2005 for "Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective", and in 2008 the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation's
Paul Bunge
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Prize in 2008 for "Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution".
In 2018 Morrison-Low became the first female president of the
Royal Scottish Society of the Arts
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References
External links
* http://blog.nms.ac.uk/author/dralisonmorrison-low/ Articles on the NMS blog by Morrison-Low.
Scottish women academics
Scottish women scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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