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Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology 14, 117118, 2005C
2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Manufactured in The Netherlands.HistoryNorman J. Jeff HolterFather of Ambulatory ECG
MonitoringS. Serge BaroldDivision of Cardiology, University of South Florida College of
Medicine and Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FLSerendipity and coincidence play a large part in
what anyone does in life. The formation of ideas
follows a quite circuitous path and often leads to
results never originally visiualized or planned.
(Jeff Holter, 1981)Norman Holter was born in Helena, MO and died
in Helena 69 years later (Fig. 1). He was a biophysicist with degrees in both physics and chemistry. Based on his early interest in biotelemetry he developed ambulatory electrocardiography
which is one of the greatest technological achievements in the history of modern cardiology. Early in
his career, Holter realized that the newer trends
in cardiologic practice would...