Dean Burk
Dean Burk (born March 21, 1904 , † October 6, 1988 ) was an American biochemist who is known, among other things, for the co-discovery of biotin and the co-development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Active in cancer research, he worked at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the National Cancer Institute . In 1934, together with Hans Lineweaver, he developed the Lineweaver-Burk diagram as an analysis method in enzyme kinetics .
When he was 15, he went to the University of California, Davis , and a year later he moved to the University of California, Berkeley , where he received his BS in entomology in 1923 . Four years later he received his Ph.D. in biochemistry.
In the course of his career, Burk published over 250 scientific articles.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dean Burk, 84, Chemist for Cancer Institute . In: The New York Times . October 10, 1988 ( online ).
- ^ Hans Lineweaver, Dean Burk: The Determination of Enzyme Dissociation Constants . In: Journal of the American Chemical Society . tape 56 , no. 3 , March 1, 1934, p. 658-666 , doi : 10.1021 / ja01318a036 .
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| SURNAME | Burk, Dean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1904 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1988 |