Background
Callan was born in Maidenhead in Berkshire the son of Garnet George Callan, a naval architect, and Winifred Edith Brazier, a teacher.
Callan was born in Maidenhead in Berkshire the son of Garnet George Callan, a naval architect, and Winifred Edith Brazier, a teacher.
University of Oxford. King"s College School. Street John"s College.
He is especially remembered for his work on Lampbrush chromosomes. See
This was initially to study sex hormones of the octopus. lieutenant was here that he first saw Lampbrush chromosomes, which became his lifetime obsession.
His studies in Naples were interrupted by the Second World War.
Mick initially joined the Royal Air Force, rising from Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader, as a highly competent airman. He was then transferred into radar research and operation.
After the war, then newly married, he moved to work at University College, London, and from there to Edinburgh to work under the famed biologist Conrad Hal Waddington. Here he worked in the Research Unit of Animal Genetics from 1946 to 1950.
He then received a professorship (the Kennedy Chair in Natural History) at Street Andrews University, replacing Professor Doctorate"Arcy Wentworth Thompson, and stayed in this role from 1950 to 1982.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1952 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1963. Street Andrews University awarded him an honorary doctorate (Doctor of Science) in 1984. He served as a Trustee of the British Museum from 1963 to 1966.
He promoted scientific adevancement within the Soviet Bloc, travelling three times to Russia and once to China, in the interests of scientific advancement.
His final (post-retiral) research was spent largely with Doctor Joe Gall in Baltimore, working on snurposomes and Ribonucleic acid-packaging. He died at home, Feuchside near Dundee, on 3 November 1993.
Royal Society.