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In honor of his outstanding work, a monument was erected for Dirk
Durrer in 1986 at the Minervaplein in Amsterdam near to his house in the
Rubensstraat 27; which Her Royal Highness Princess Juliana, the former
Queen of the Netherlands, unveiled on May 28th 1986, several years after
Durrer's death in 1984. This monument, a stainless steel sculpture by
the Dutch sculptor Lucien den Arend, (probably) shows a model with two
parallel atrioventricular connections: the specialized conduction
pathway and the accessory pathway; and so shows and supports the
“reentry theory.” It is large stainless steel sculpture with a Latin
title: "Primum Movens Ultimum Moriens," which can be translated as "What
moves first, dies last." This was is the title of the inaugural lecture
by Durrer in 1957.
The Latin inscription refers to Durrer's
pioneering work in the field of cardiac electrophysiology. He was one of
the first researchers to use a technique called "intracardiac mapping"
to study the heart's electrical signals, and his research helped to
establish many of the basic principles of cardiac electrophysiology that
are still in use today.
The Durrer Memorial is located in a
public park near the AMC, and it serves as a reminder of Durrer's
contributions to medicine and science. It is also a symbol of the
ongoing importance of cardiac electrophysiology in the diagnosis and
treatment of heart disease.
