Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic (born 1910)

Vivien Thomas

American laboratory supervisor (1910–1985)

Vivien Theodore Thomas was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndrome along with surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B. Taussig. He was…