David L. Bassett

{{Short description|American physician and academic}}

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David Lee Bassett (December 31, 1913 – November 17, 1966)Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration.Washington, Death Index, 1940-2014 was an American physician and academic.

Bassett was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Stanford University speech professor Lee Emerson Bassett.{{cite news|title=Lee Emerson Bassett of Stanford Dies at Home|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=93721781|accessdate=August 11, 2017|work=Palo Alto Times|date=December 21, 1959}} He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1939.{{cite web |url= http://lane.stanford.edu/biomed-resources/bassett/index.html |title= Bassett Collection of Stereoscopic Images of Human Anatomy |publisher= Stanford School of Medicine |location= lane.stanford.edu |accessdate= September 9, 2011}} 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.{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/science/22bass.html |title= The Body in Depth |first= John |last= Schwartz |date= April 22, 2008 |newspaper= The New York Times |location= www.nytimes.com |accessdate= April 23, 2008}} 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.{{cite web |url= http://slice.utah.edu/sol/contributors/DavidLBassett.html#3 |title= Slice of Life |location= slice.utah.edu |accessdate= September 9, 2011}}