Levi Watkins
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 9 years ago |
Date of birth | June 13,1944 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Parsons |
Kansas | |
United States | |
Date of died | April 11,2015 |
Died | Baltimore |
Maryland | |
United States | |
Parents | Levi Watkins, Sr. (father); Lillian Varnado (mother) |
Levi Watkins, Sr. ; Lillian Varnado (mother) | |
Education | Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
Tennessee State University | |
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ID | 1334735 |
Levi Watkins Life story
Levi Watkins Jr. 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.