BMI Scientist in Residence Dr James Dawson looks at the representation of comets in art, backed up with a sprinkling of science.

Dr James Dawson obtained his BSc (Hons) in biochemistry from the University of Sussex. He subsequently undertook research at University College London into cancer cell growth, studied medicine at the University of Leicester and has worked throughout the East and West Midlands, and has been a consultant anaesthetist in Nottingham for the last 12 years. He is Librarian for the Society for the History of Astronomy, based at The Birmingham and Midland Institute, and has published articles in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association and other astronomy publications. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and of the Royal Astronomical Society. James is currently renovating the Nottingham Astronomical Society’s observatory and spends a lot of time tinkering with amateur electronics, and more recently with amateur spectrophotometry.

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