Ivan Pavlov
Conditioned reflex; first Russian Nobel laureate
Timeline - Pavlov in the record
8 referenced events from the Ivanov's Ghost archive.
Ivan Pavlov is born in Ryazan, the son of a priest.
Prince Alexander of Oldenburg founds Russia's first modern biomedical research institute in St Petersburg, modelled on Pasteur and Koch. Pavlov will head its physiology department for 45 years.
Pavlov takes charge of the Department of Physiology at the new Institute of Experimental Medicine, where he will work for 45 years.
Ivanov graduates from Kharkiv University and gravitates toward the physiology of reproduction, studying under Pavlov and at the Institut Pasteur.
Pavlov begins the studies of conditioned reflexes, the body trained to respond to a signal, that will define the physiology of the mind.
Ivan Pavlov receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on digestion, the first Russian laureate, and turns toward the conditioned reflex.
Pavlov receives the Nobel Prize for his work on the physiology of digestion, the first Russian laureate.
Pavlov dies in Leningrad, aged 86, having straddled Imperial and Soviet Russia and lavished with resources despite denouncing the regime.