Levi Watkins
(1944-2015)
American heart surgeon and civil rights activist
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Levi Watkins Jr. (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. On February 4, 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient at Johns Hopkins University. This took place only a mere seven months after Watkins completed his surgical education at Johns Hopkins. Today, millions of patients everywhere use this device, which detects irregular heart beats and corrects them.
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13 June 1944 Parsons, Kansas, U.S.
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| Died |
11 April 2015 (aged 70) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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