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Just One More | Vivien Thomas: Remembering a Pioneering Legend Feb 04, 2021 A Vivien Thomas life and legacy are rife with colors – black, white and blue. A poor Black man and grandson of an enslaved person, Thomas was classified as a janitor at Johns Hopkins University but donned a white lab coat and eventually played a crucial role in developing surgical techniques to overcome tetralogy of Fallot, a cause of blue baby syndrome. Thomas was born in Louisiana in 1910. While he never realized his dream of going to college and medical school, losing his college savings during the Great Depression, he became a scientist and educator and the teacher of many cardiac surgeons who went on to head surgery departments across the U.S. ....