Vivien Thomas Death
Vivien passed away on November 26, 1985 at the age of 75.
When did Vivien Thomas die?
November 26, 1985How old was Vivien Thomas when died?
75
Vivien Thomas Birthday and Date of Death
Vivien Thomas was born on August 29, 1910 and died on November 26, 1985. Vivien was 75 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: August 29, 1910
Date of Death: November 26, 1985
Age at Death: 75
Vivien Thomas - Biography
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years. In 1976 Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate and named him an instructor of surgery for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.
