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Levi Watkins : ウィキペディア英語版 | Levi Watkins
Levi Watkins, Jr. (June 13, 1944 – April 11, 2015) was an African American heart surgeon and civil rights activist. In 1980, he and Vivien Thomas were the first to successfully implant an automatic defibrillator in a human patient. ==Early life and education== Watkins was born in Parsons, Kansas to Levi Watkins, Sr. (1911–1994) and Lillian Varnado (1917–2013). The family moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where his father served as the sixth president of Alabama State College from 1962 to 1983 and his mother worked as a high school teacher. Watkins was the valedictorian of his class at Alabama State Laboratory High School. He graduated from Tennessee State University and applied to the University of Alabama School of Medicine, but was rejected. Instead, he attended the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and became the first African American to obtain a medical degree from that institution. By the time he graduated in 1970, Watkins was still the only black student at the school.〔〔 He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.he was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
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