Ivan Pavlov Facts
Ivan Pavlov Facts
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| Ivan Pavlov was the eldest of eleven children born in Ryazan where his father was the village priest. |
| Pavlov was seriously injured in a fall when he was seven so was educated at home until he was able to start school at age 11. |
| After graduating from high school, he entered the local theological seminary, but in 1870 transferred to the university in St. Petersburg to study physics and mathematics. |
| In 1874 he won an award for his research on the physiology of pancreatic nerves. |
| In 1875 Pavlov received a degree in Natural Sciences but decided to continue his studies in the Academy of Medical Surgery. |
| In 1879 Pavlov graduated from the Medical Military Academy with a gold medal and won a fellowship at the Academy for postgraduate work. |
| In 1879 he presented his doctoral thesis on The Centrifugal Nerves of the Heart in which he outlined the basic principles and function of the nervous system. |
| From 1884 to 1886 he worked in Leipzig studying digestion in dogs and he overcame the problem of maintaining the blood supply to the exteriorized stomachs. |
| From 1890 to 1895 he was the professor of Pharmacology at the Military Medical Academy and beginning in 1891 he also organized the Institute of Experimental Medicine. |
| Pavlov created an external salivary collection device to analyze and record the saliva of dogs and children in response to certain stimuli. |
| He made many contributions to physiology and neurology but his most famous work was on conditioning and involuntary reflex. |
| His work on the digestive glands earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1904. |
| He was among the first to carry out experiments on live animals rather than using vivisection to record experimental results and it required a large-scale kennel to keep the animals alive and healthy. |
| From 1921 to his death in 1936 he held weekly meetings at the laboratory where he spoke on many topics. |
| Although he was highly praised and received many awards from the Soviet Government, he was contemptuous of their policies and politics. |
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