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October 6, 1988) was an American biochemist, medical researcher, and a cancer

researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and

the National Cancer Institute.

In 1934, he developed the Lineweaver–Burk plot together

with Hans Lineweaver. 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 was the second of four sons born to Frederic Burk, the

founder of the San Francisco Normal School, a preparatory school for teachers

which eventually became San Francisco State

University. He entered the University of California,

Davis at the age of 15. A year later, he transferred to

the University of California,

Berkeley, where he received his B.S. in Entomology in 1923. Four years later, he earned a Ph.D.

in biochemistry.[ Burk

joined the Department of Agriculture in 1929 working in the Fixed

Nitrogen Research Laboratory In 1939, he joined the Cancer Institute as a

senior chemist. He was head of the cytochemistry laboratory when he retired in

1974. He also taught biochemistry at the Cornell University Medical

School from 1939 to 1941. He was a research master at George Washington

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

was a co-developer of the prototype of the Magnetic

Resonance Scanner. Burk published more than 250 scientific articles

in his lifetime. He later became head of the National Cancer Institute's

Cytochemistry Sector in 1938, although he is often mistaken as leading the

entire facility.

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