Robert Anderson is President and CEO of the Science History Institute based in Philadelphia USA, 2016-to present. He was first Director of the National Museums of Scotland from 1985 to 1992 and was Director of the British Museum from 1992 to 2002. Oxford DPhil. Emeritus Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge. Honorary Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford. Honorary doctorates from Edinburgh and Durham Universities. He is Editor of the correspondence of chemist Joseph Black (1728-1799).