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Burk, Dean was born on March 21, 1904 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Frederic and Caroline (Frear) Burk.
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Burk, Dean was born on March 21, 1904 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Frederic and Caroline (Frear) Burk.
Bachelor of Science, University of California, 1923; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, 1927.
In 1934, he developed the Lineweaver–Burk plot together with Hans Lineweaver. He entered the University of California at Davis at the age of 15. A year later, he transferred to the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Bachelor of Surgery in Entomology in 1923.
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 chemistry 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.
He was a co-developer of the prototype of the Magnetic Resonance Scanner and a co-discoverer of biotin.
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. After retiring from the National Cancer Institute in 1974, Dean Burk remained active.
He devoted himself to his opposition to water fluoridation.
According to Burk "fluoridation is a form of public mass murder." Dean Burk argued on Dutch television against a water fluoridation proposal which was before the Dutch Parliament in the Netherlands. He also was an avid supporter of laetrile.
A cancer treatment now regarded by the medical establishment as ineffective and potentially dangerous. Dean Burk and Otto Heinrich Warburg discovered the photosynthesis I-quantum reaction that splits Carbon dioxide activated by respiration.
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President Dean Burk Foundation Inc. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (organizer, chairman research conferences on cancer 1942-1945). Member American Chemical Society (Hillebrand award 1952), American Society Biological Chemists, American Association Cancer Research, American Society Plant Physiologist, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine (chairman 1949-1950, secretary-treasurer 1948-1949), New York, Washington academies science, Society General Physiology, Long Island Biological Association, Harvey Society, Chemical Society Washington, Max Planck Association Munich, Institute for Cell Physiology Berlin, Royal Society Medicine London, National Trust Great Britain, Dolmetsch Foundation Haslemere (foreign), Max Planck Institute Biochemistry Munich, Society California Pioneers, Cosmos Club (Washington), commonwealth Club (California), Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha.
Married Mildred Chaundy. Children: Diana Burk Barker, Wendy Burk Maiorana, Frederic Chaundy.