David Lee Bassett (December 31, 1913 – November 17, 1966)[1] [2] was an American physician and academic.
Bassett was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Stanford University speech professor Lee Emerson Bassett.[3] He graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine in 1939.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]