David L. Bassett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDavid L. Bassett
American medical academic
Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1913
Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, United States
Date of Death: 17-Nov-1966
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About David L. Bassett
- David Lee Bassett (December 31, 1913 – November 17, 1966) was an American physician and academic.
- Bassett was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Stanford University speech professor Lee Emerson Bassett.
- He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1939.
- 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.
- 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.
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