Alison Morrison-Low Explained

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^[1] 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.^[2]

In July 2016 she was an invited expert on for "The Invention of Photography", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4.^[3] 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 Prize in 2008 for "Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution".^{[4] [5]}

In 2018 Morrison-Low became the first female president of the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts.^[6]

References

1. Web site: Brisbane Observatory . Secret Scotland . 2016-12-10.
2. Web site: Dr Alison Morrison-low, director at Brisbane Observatory Trust, Edinburgh . Directorstats . 2016-12-10.
3. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Invention of Photography . BBC . 2016-07-07 . 2016-12-10.
4. Web site: MERSENNE Archives . JISC . 2015-06-17 . 2016-12-10.
5. Web site: Stereoscopy . The University of Edinburgh . 2016-12-05 . 2016-12-10.
6. Web site: RSSA Officers - 198th Session. www.rssa.org.uk. en. 2018-07-24.

External links

• http://blog.nms.ac.uk/author/dralisonmorrison-low/ Articles on the NMS blog by Morrison-Low.