Redcliffe Nathan Salaman
Redcliffe Nathan Salaman
| Dr Redcliffe Nathan Salaman MD FRS | |||||||
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| Born | 1874 | ||||||
| Died | 1955 | ||||||
| Residence |
Director, Potato Virus Station, Cambridge University Homestall, Barley, near Royston, Herts. [1921] | ||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||
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1921.03.22 proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by H.J. Fleure
1950.12.05 nominated
brother of Michel Hewitt Salaman and Brenda Zara Seligman
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Dr. Redcliffe Salaman, a scientist and Zionist notable,
Dr. Salaman, one of a family of fifteen, came to Barley in 1906 having obtained his M.D. two years earlier. He was interested in genetics and selected the potato as a medium of research, and it was the potato that was to lead him to world fame. He discovered resistance to potato blight in 1908, and in 1926 he persuaded the Ministry of Agriculture to found the Potato Virus Research Unit at Cambridge of which he became the first director until reaching the age of retirement in 1939. Dr Salaman also did valuable work as Chairman of the Potato Synonym Committee. He had over 30 publications to his credit but the culmination of his work was the book The History and Social Influence of the Potato, published in 1949.
Dr Salaman was the energetic commander of the Barley section of the Home Guard when it was formed in 1940 - although it was called the Local Defence Volunteers at the time; he was also active on many national and international committees for Jewish education and refugee relief.
Salaman, Redcliffe Nathan (1874-1955), geneticist and Jewish activist, was born Nathan Redcliffe Salaman, at 100 Redcliffe Gardens, Kensington, London, on 12 September 1874, the ninth of the fifteen children of Myer Salaman, a wealthy ostrich feather merchant, and his wife, Sarah Solomon, a relative of N. M. Adler, chief rabbi from 1844 to 1890. ...
Redcliffe Nathan Salaman
Birthdate: September 12, 1874
Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Death: 1955 (80)
Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:
Son of Myer Salaman and Sarah Salaman
Husband of Nina Ruth Salaman and Gertrude "Golda" Salaman
Father of Myer Head Salaman; Edward Salaman; Arthur Gabriel Salaman; Raphael Arthur Salaman; Ruth Isabelle Collet and 1 other
Brother of Euston Abraham Salaman; Bessie Cohen; Elkin Josiah Salaman; Josiah Myer Salaman; Ethel Phoebe de Pass and 10 others
Last Updated: December 9, 2016
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The History and Social Influence of the Potato
