| LC control no. | n 89139106 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Watkins, Levi, Jr., 1944-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Watkins, L. (Levi), 1944-2015 |
| Located | Montgomery (Ala.) |
| Birth date | 19440613 |
| Death date | 20150411 |
| Place of birth | Parsons (Kan.) |
| Place of death | Baltimore (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Heart--Surgery Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators |
| Affiliation | Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine |
| Profession or occupation | Heart surgeons Medical teaching personnel |
| Found in | His Automatic defibrillation [VR] c1988: credit frame (Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S., assoc. prof. of cardiac surg., Sch. of Med., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD) label (L. Watkins) ABMS comp. cert. med. spec., 3rd ed., 1990, p. 676 (Watkins, Levi, Jr.; b. 1944) New York times (online), viewed Apr. 17, 2015 (in obituary published Apr. 16: Dr. Levi Watkins Jr.; b. June 13, 1944, Parsons, Kan.; moved with his family to Montgomery, Ala.; d. Saturday [Apr. 11, 2015], Baltimore, aged 70; first surgeon to successfully implant an automatic heart defibrillator in a human patient, and a civil rights pioneer who helped fling open medical school doors to hundreds of students who had been excluded, as he had once been, because they were black) |
| Associated language | eng |
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