David L. Bassett

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