Alison Morrison-Low

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]

Selected publications

• Stevenson, Sara; Morrison-Low, A D (2015), Scottish photography : the first thirty years, National Museums Scotland, ISBN 9781905267972
• Morrison-Low, Alison D; Scotland, National Museums (2015), Photography - a Victorian sensation, Edinburgh NMS Enterprises Limited - Publishing, ISBN 978-1905267958
• Morrison-Low, A D (2012), From earth-bound to satellite : telescopes, skills and networks, History of science and medicine library, vol. 23.; Scientific instruments and collections, vol. 2., Brill, ISBN 978-9004211506
• Morrison-Low, Alison D (2007), Making scientific instruments in the industrial Revolution, Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945, Ashgate, cop, ISBN 978-0754657583
• Connor, R D; Simpson, A D C; Morrison-Low, A D; Scotland, National Museums of (2004), Weights and measures in Scotland : a European perspective, National Museums of Scotland, ISBN 9781901663884
• Stevenson, Sara; Morrison-Low, A D (1995), Light from the dark room : a celebration of Scottish photography, a Scottish-Canadian collaboration, National Galleries of Scotland, ISBN 9780903598583
• Burnett, John E; Morrison-Low, Alison D; Anderson, R G W; Mollan, R Charles (1989), "Vulgar and mechanick" : the scientific instrument trade in Ireland, 1650-1921, Royal Dublin Society Historical Studies in Irish Science and Technology, vol. 8, National Museums of Scotland, ISBN 9780860270263