Walter Karl Koch

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Walter Karl Koch was a German surgeon (Dortmund, Germany, May 3, 1880- ? ). Koch is best known for the discovery of Tawaras node, the atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the bundle of His about the auricular-ventricular.

Educated at Freiburg im Breisgau and at the Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm's Akademie, he obtained his doctorate in 1907 at Freiburg. As a military physician he was posted at the Heidelberg pathological institute and the II medical clinic in Berlin. Here he was habilitated for general pathology and pathological anatomy in 1921.

After being named a professor in 1922, he worked as head of department at the Krankenhaus Westend.

Koch became known for his work on the motor centres of the human heart, and coined the term "sinus node."

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