Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

Profile of Ivan Pavlov

was born on September 14, 1849 in the village of Ryazan, Russia, the son of Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, who was the village priest. Because he was the son of a priest he went to church school and enrolled in a theology seminar. As the son of a preacher Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was going to follow in his father’s footsteps, that was until he read a book by Charles Darwin called “The Origin of Species” After reading this book Ivan Pavlov dropped out of his theological studies and enrolled in a Natural Science program in the University of St-Petersburg.

After enrolling in the University of St-Petersburg Ivan Petrovich Pavlov discovered his passion, physiology. Physiology is the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their body parts, including all physical and chemical processes. It was here that Ivan Pavlov in collaboration with a fellow classmate wrote his first paper on “The Physiology of the Pancreatic Nerves” Ivan Pavlov received his first gold medal for this paper. This however is not the only gold medal that Ivan received; he went on to winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine/ Physiology in 1904 “in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject have been transformed and enlarged” Nobelprize.org. During his 1904 Nobel Prize address he presented his theory on Classic Conditioning. Ivan Pavlov was also elected as the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1907, given an honorary doctorate at Cambridge University in 1912, and awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour in 1915. But these were not the studies that made him famous in the psychology world; it was his study of the canine digest...

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