David_L._Bassett

David L. Bassett

David L. Bassett

American physician and academic

David Lee Bassett (December 31, 1913 – November 17, 1966)[1][2] was an American physician and academic.

Bassett was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Stanford University speech professor Lee Emerson Bassett.[3] He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1939.[4] He was an expert of anatomy and dissection at the University of Washington and best known for creating, in collaboration with William Gruber, the 25-volume "Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy" in 1962. The atlas is a series of paired slides that use Gruber's View-Master three-dimensional viewing system to display a perception of depth and levels of detail that made Bassett's work pioneering.[5] Bassett died in Seattle soon after from amyloid disease; his materials were used in revisions and other works with permission of his widow Lucille F. Bassett.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration.
  2. [2]
    Washington, Death Index, 1940-2014
  3. [3]
    "Lee Emerson Bassett of Stanford Dies at Home". Palo Alto Times. December 21, 1959. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy". lane.stanford.edu: Stanford School of Medicine. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
  5. [5]
    Schwartz, John (April 22, 2008). "The Body in Depth". The New York Times. www.nytimes.com. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
  6. [6]
    "Slice of Life". slice.utah.edu. Retrieved September 9, 2011.

Further reading

  • Chase, Robert The Bassett Atlas of Human Anatomy, ISBN 978-0-8053-0118-2
  • The Wonderful Legacy of David L. Bassett (The Journal of British and American Associations of Clinical Anatomists, 5: 151-156 (1992))


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