H. G. Callan

After initially finding employment at the John Innes Institute in Surrey, he won a scholarship and jumped at the chance of working at the Stazione Zoologica in Naples.

Mick initially joined the RAF, rising from Flight Lieutenant to Squadron Leader, as a highly competent airman.

[5] He then received a professorship (the Kennedy Chair in Natural History) at St Andrews University, replacing Prof D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, and stayed in this role from 1950 to 1982.

His final (post-retiral) research was spent largely with Dr Joe Gall in Baltimore, working on snurposomes and RNA-packaging.

[7] Mick met his wife, Amarillis Maria Speranza Dohrn in Naples and they married there in 1944.