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Dugald Cameron

b. 1939

Scottish artist and industrial designer (born 1939)

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Born 1939. Dugald Cameron is a British painter and industrial designer.

Dugald Cameron, OBE, FCSD, FRSA (born 1939) is a Scottish artist and industrial designer.

Cameron was born in Glasgow in 1939 and raised near Clydebank, attending the High School of Glasgow. He subsequently worked as a freelance industrial designer, during which time he designed a prototype medical ultrasound machine, the Lund machine (aka the Sundén machine, after Bertil Sundén of Lund University, who commissioned it), and the production version, the Diasonograph, working with medical physicist Tom Brown.

He also worked as an artist, specialising in aviation subjects.

He was awarded the Lord Provost of Glasgow's Gold Medal for Education in 1998 and appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours, "for services to Art and Design". The same year, he was made an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Strathclyde. A Companion of the Royal Aeronautical Society, he was granted the Baird of Bute Society's aviation award in 2013. His paintings are in the collections of the National Museum of Flight, the Royal Navy Submarine Museum and the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

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Important facts

Born
1939
Birth century
Nationality
Education
High School of Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art
Employers
University of Glasgow
Awards
Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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Who is Dugald Cameron?

Scottish artist and industrial designer (born 1939)

When was Dugald Cameron born?

Dugald Cameron was born in 1939.

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Dugald Cameron is a painter and industrial designer.

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Dugald Cameron is British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Dugald Cameron

· Wikidata: Q21455175

· DBpedia: Dugald Cameron

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