15 Facts About Dean Burk

Dean Turner Burk was an American biochemist, medical researcher, and a cancer researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the National Cancer Institute.

Lineweaver and Burk collaborated with the eminent statistician W Edwards Deming on the statistical analysis of their data: they used the plot for illustrating the results, not for the analysis itself.

Dean Turner Burk was born on March 21,1904, in Oakland in Alameda County.

Dean Burk entered the University of California, Davis at the age of 15.

Dean Burk joined the Department of Agriculture in 1929 working in the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory.

Dean Burk was head of the cytochemistry laboratory when he retired in 1974.

Dean Burk taught biochemistry at the Cornell University Medical School from 1939 to 1941.

Dean Burk was a research master at George Washington University.

Dean Burk was a close friend and co-author with Otto Heinrich Warburg.

Dean Burk was a co-developer of the prototype of the Magnetic Resonance Scanner.

Dean Burk published more than 250 scientific articles in his lifetime.

Dean Burk later became head of the National Cancer Institute's Cytochemistry Sector in 1938, although he is often mistaken as leading the entire facility.

Dean Burk devoted himself to his opposition to water fluoridation.

Dean Burk considered "fluoridation as "mass murder on a grand scale.

Dean Burk was an avid supporter of laetrile; an alleged cancer treatment regarded by the medical community as ineffective and potentially dangerous.