Walter Karl Koch

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Walter Karl Koch (3 May 1880 in Dortmund, Germany - 1962) was a German surgeon best known for the discovery of "Koch's triangle", a triangular shaped area in the right atrium of the heart, and of Tawara's node, the atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle. Educated in Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin, he obtained his doctorate in 1907 at Freiburg.