Bengoa, José (2003). Historia de los antiguos mapuches del sur (in Spanish). Santiago: Catalonia. pp.199–200. ISBN 978-956-8303-02-0. This abundance couldn’t have come at a better time. Europe was rapidly industrialising, and the food that filled the bellies of the workers of the Industrial Revolution was the potato. However, the guano that helped farmers grow ever larger quantities of potatoes arrived on the shores of Europe with an unwanted guest - the potato blight. It would hit Ireland like a sledgehammer. With no end in sight, a further two million left the island to seek a better life elsewhere, almost three-quarters of them taking advantage of cheap travel to the United States, creating the large US-Irish population we see in the States today. Ireland itself never fully recovered from this mass exodus, and even today it has the unusual distinction of being the only country in the world whose population is smaller now than it was 150 years ago. Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press. pp.84–85. ISBN 978-0-521-23032-2.

For the early history of the potato was set on a stage dominated by the mysterious grandeur of the Andes, whose dread influence could never.Farmers tried everything to combat the invasion of these voracious little orange invaders, but for twenty years it was to no avail. Then, in 1880, a farmer threw some green paint out onto his infested plants and was surprised to see it killed off the beetles. The paint contained a mixture of arsenic and copper called ‘Paris green’. A couple of years later, a researcher in France discovered that potato blight could be killed with copper sulfate and lime. Before long, potato crops were being sprayed with Paris green and copper sulfate, killing off the blight and the beetle at the same time. It was the birth of the modern pesticide industry, which in turn led to the creation of the environmental movement.

In 1925, Salaman's first wife Nina died. In 1926, he met and married Gertrude Lowy (1887–1982)—granddaughter of Albert Löwy [30]—who survived him. [3] In 1933, he was a founding member of the Academic Assistance Council, which helped scientists fleeing the Nazi regime, and in 1945 was chairman of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad as it worked to rehabilitate survivors of the extermination camps. [25] Personal life [ edit ] Nina Salaman in 1918 Endelman, Todd M. (2004). "Anglo-Jewish Scientists and the Science of Race". Jewish Social Studies. Indiana University Press. 11 (1): 52–92. ISSN 0021-6704. JSTOR 4467695 . Retrieved 16 July 2023. Sarah C. P. Williams (15 May 2007). "The Secret History of the Potato – ScienceNOW". sciencemag.org . Retrieved 19 December 2010. Walker, T. S.; Schmiediche, P. E.; Hijmans, R. J. (1999). "World trends and patterns in the potato crop: An economic and geographic survey". Potato Research. 42 (2): 241. doi: 10.1007/BF02357856. S2CID 21552566.

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