William F Neuman was an important biochemist and author. He was born June 2, 1919, in
Petoskey, Michigan and died January 4, 1981, in
Rochester, New York. Neuman was an authority on the
biochemistry of bone tissue. Before joining the faculty of the
University of Rochester in 1944, he headed the biochemistry section of the
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission at the university and helped develop the field of health physics. In 1965 he was a member of the scientific team that studied the effects of space flight on astronauts
Frank Borman and
James A. Lovell after their fourteen-day flight on
Gemini 7. Neuman was the author or co-author of more than two hundred scholarly publications.