Robert Harold Wasserman (11 February 1926, Schenectady, New York – 23 May 2018, Ithaca, New York) was a professor of veterinary medicine and a research scientist, known as the principal investigator leading the scientists credited with the discovery of calcium-binding proteins.
After military service in WWII, he spent a year working on a farm in upstate New York and then matriculated at Cornell University.
In spring 1958, Wasserman returned to Cornell University as an associate professor in the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine's newly created Laboratory of Radiation Biology.
"[1] Wasserman was a member of the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, The Cornell Veterinarian, Calcified Tissue International, and the Journal of Nutrition.
He participated in over 40 international conferences on calcium metabolism, bone health, calcification, and vitamin D.[1] Robert Wasserman married Marilyn Joyce Mintz in 1950 in Ithaca.