Kenneth Callow

Life and work

Callow worked at the National Institute for Medical Research ( NIMR ) in Mill Hill and Hampstead, where he worked on steroids and the isolation and characterization of vitamin D as well as in the synthesis of cortisone from naturally occurring steroids.

In 1961, he identified with the compound ( E )-9 -oxo -dec -2 -enoic acid, a short 9- ODA, the second known pheromone, known as queens pheromone. After he went in 1966 to retire at the NIMR, he moved to to Rothamsted Research, where he continued until 1971 did research on insect pheromones.

Honors and Memberships

Callow was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Society in 1958. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Biochemical JOURNAL 1946 until 1953. Later, he was Chairman of the Biological and Medical Abstracts. He was a member of the Council of the Bee Research Association (Council of the Bee Research Society) from 1962 to 1974 and later its vice-president.