Page 532 - Copper and Bronze in Art: Corrosion, Colorants, Getty Museum Conservation, By David Scott

A B O U T T H E A U T H O R

DAVID A. SCOTT is a senior scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute and head of the GCI
Museum Research Laboratory at the Getty Center, Los Angeles. He earned his B.Sc. degree in
chemistry from the University of Reading and his B.A. degree in archaeological conservation
from the Department of Conservation and Materials Science, Institute of Archaeology, London.
He completed his Ph.D. in ancient metallurgy at University College, London, in 1982, and was
then appointed lecturer in conservation at the Institute of Archaeology, London. In 1987 he
joined the Getty Conservation Institute, where he became head of the GCI Museum Services
Laboratory based at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu. He has published more than eighty
articles in the areas of metallurgy and metals conservation and research, and has edited several
conference proceedings, including Ancient and Historic Metals (Getty Conservation Institute,
1994). He is also the author of The Metallography and Microstructure of Ancient and Historic Met­
als (Getty Conservation Institute, 1991). In 1984 Dr. Scott was appointed an editor for Studies in
Conservation, in 1992 was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 1994
became a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation. His primary areas of research
are ancient and historic metallic artifacts, particularly ancient Ecuadorian and Colombian met­
als, but also Greek, Roman, and Etruscan; the analysis of corrosion products of works of art;
and the characterization of pigments from a variety of cultures.

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