Levi Watkins
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Most Influential Person
American surgeon
Why Is Levi Watkins Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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. 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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