ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Philip S. Callahan was born on August 29, 1923, at Fort Benning, Georgia. He entered the U.S. Army Air Force, San Antonio, Texas, in 1942, and served two years in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. Hiking around the world after the war, he worked as a free lance photographer and writer.
On his return tothe United States he matriculated at Fordham University, New York, New York. He received his B.A. and M.S. degree from the University of Arkansas and his Ph.D. from Kansas State
University. He joined the staff of the Entomology Department at Louisiana State University in March 1956 as Assistant Professor.
He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1959. He joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Southern Grain Insects Research Laboratory, Tifton, Georgia, in July 1962 as Project Leader for Insect Biophysics. He was also Professor of Entomology on the Graduate Faculty of the University of Georgia. In 1966, he received the Superior Service Award of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from the Secretary of Agriculture. He also received the annual award for distinguished research from the University of Georgia Chapter of Sigma Xi and also the Sears Roebuck
Foundation Award for contributions to agriculture. In 1969 he transferred to USDA Insect Attractant and Behavior Laboratory at Gainesville, Florida. His research involves the utilization of nonlinear far infrared radiation by biological systems and its applications to insect control and medicine. He has developed theories of insect communication based on the waveguide
characteristics of insect spines and has postulated that such spines are thermoelectret-coated dielectric waveguide aerials
with the ability to receive short wavelength IR and microwave frequencies. His work in biophysics might best be called studies
in insect molecular bioelectronics. He is the author of 106
scientific papers and 12 books on science and a full professor on the graduate faculty of the University of Florida. He is one of 5% of U.S. scientists in the Who's Who of Technology today. He retired from the USDA on June 20, 1986, and is now on the staff of The Olive W. Garvey Center for the Improvement of Human Functioning, Inc., Wichita, Kansas, as an infrared systems and low energy consultant.
