Dean Burk
Dean Burk | |
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| Born | Dean Turner Burk March 21, 1904 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Died | October 6, 1988 (aged 84) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Other names | M. Dean Burk |
| Education | University of California, Davis |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Spouse | Mildred Chaundy Burk |
| Father | Frederic Lister Burk |
Dean Turner Burk (March 21, 1904 – 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.