Betty Neuman was born in 1924 near Lowell, Ohio. In 1947 Dr. Neuman received an RN diploma from People's Hospital School of Nursing in Akron, Ohio which is now Akron General. Once gaining her RN diploma she moved to California, over time Dr. Neuman continued to gain knowledge and experience through working in a hospital as a nurse and head nurse, a school nurse, an industrial nurse, and as an instructor. As a double major in psychology and public health at the University of California at Los Angeles Dr. Neuman received her BSN. Soon after Dr. Neuman received her master's degree in mental health, public health consultation at UCLA. In 1970 Dr. Neuman began to develop The Systems Model as a way to teach an introductory source to nursing students.
