Vivien T. Thomas [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Peter D. Olch, Apr. 20, 1967.
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Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964
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Taussig, Helen B. (Helen Brooke), 1898-1986
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Olch, Peter D. (Peter Dean), 1930-
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Vanderbilt University. School of Medicine
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Thomas, Vivien Theodore, 1910-1985
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Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985) was an American laboratory supervisor who developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) 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. Thomas was unique in that he did not have any professional education or experience ...
Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine.
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