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DR. ALEXANDER GALT, whose death at the age of eighty-three years occurred on June 26, was appointed keeper of the Technological Department, the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, in 1901, the year in which the Department was founded. He graduated at the University of Glasgow where he was a Thomson (Lord Kelvin) scholar in physical science, and a Donaldson scholar in natural science. For eight years he was official assistant to Lord Kelvin in Glasgow University. Among his publications were papers on physics and physical chemistry in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh. He was external Examiner in Experimental Physics for degrees in Arts and Science in the University of Edinburgh in 1910-14.
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Dr. Alexander Galt. Nature 142, 103 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142103a0
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