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Vivien Thomas

1910 - 1985

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Dr. Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an American laboratory supervisor who in the 1940s developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease). He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vivien Thomas has received more than 1,863,911 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Vivien Thomas is the 430th most popular physician (down from 399th in 2019), the 4,463rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,239th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Vivien Thomas ranks 430 out of 502. Before him are Peter C. Doherty, Kurt Blome, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Mehmet Oz, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, and Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel. After him are Ernst von Bergmann, Luigi Carlo Farini, Sunao Tawara, Didier Raoult, Caspar Peucer, and William Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Vivien Thomas ranks 168. Before him are Maxim Munzuk, Olga Bergholz, George C. Homans, Donald Watson, Jean Martinon, and Jean Servais. After him are Lee Wallard, Herminio Masantonio, Douglas Bader, Gunter d'Alquen, Edmund Leach, and Marc Lawrence. Among people deceased in 1985, Vivien Thomas ranks 114. Before him are Mary Kenneth Keller, Salvador Espriu, John G. Trump, Renato Castellani, Oreco, and Jock Stein. After him are Yusuf Lule, Brian Horrocks, Gale Sondergaard, Sergei Gerasimov, Clarence Nash, and Michel Audiard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vivien Thomas ranks 4,463 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael Brecker (1949), Edward Furlong (1977), William Klein (1928), Sanford B. Dole (1844), Lee Radziwill (1933), and Jackie Wilson (1934). After him are Courtney Hodges (1887), John Trumbull (1756), James Kottak (1962), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), E. G. Marshall (1914), and Ed Heinemann (1908).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Vivien Thomas ranks 50. Before him are Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898), Crawford Long (1815), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), William Stewart Halsted (1852), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), and Mehmet Oz (1960). After him are Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884), Philip Showalter Hench (1896), Benjamin Rush (1745), Jeffrey Ullman (1942), Ancel Keys (1904), and William Beaumont (1785).

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