39 Facts About Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov's father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, was a village Russian orthodox priest.

Ivan Pavlov's mother, Varvara Ivanovna Uspenskaya, was a devoted homemaker.

Ivan Pavlov loved to garden, ride his bicycle, row, swim, and play gorodki; he devoted his summer vacations to these activities.

From his childhood days, Ivan Pavlov demonstrated intellectual curiosity along with an unusual energy which he referred to as "the instinct for research".

Ivan Pavlov attended the Ryazan church school before entering the local theological seminary.

In 1875, Ivan Pavlov completed his course with an outstanding record and received the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences.

Ivan Pavlov left the department when de Cyon was replaced by another instructor.

For two years, Ivan Pavlov investigated the circulatory system for his medical dissertation.

In 1879, Ivan Pavlov graduated from the Medical Military Academy with a gold medal award for his research work.

The fellowship and his position as director of the Physiological Laboratory at Botkin's clinic enabled Ivan Pavlov to continue his research work.

Sechenov, a Russian physiologist, whom Ivan Pavlov described as "the father of physiology".

However, Ivan Pavlov perfected the technique by overcoming the problem of maintaining the external nerve supply.

In 1886, Ivan Pavlov returned to Russia to look for a new position.

In 1891, Ivan Pavlov was invited to the Institute of Experimental Medicine in St Petersburg to organize and direct the Department of Physiology.

Ivan Pavlov continued to direct the Department of Physiology at the institute, while taking up the chair of physiology at the Medical Military Academy in 1895.

Ivan Pavlov did not win the prize until 1904 because his previous nominations were not specific to any discovery, but based on a variety of laboratory findings.

When Ivan Pavlov received the Nobel Prize it was specified that he did so "in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged".

Ivan Pavlov investigated the gastric function of dogs, and later, homeless children, by externalizing a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyze the saliva and what response it had to food under different conditions.

Ivan Pavlov noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, and set out to investigate this "psychic secretion", as he called it.

Ivan Pavlov's laboratory housed a full-scale kennel for the experimental canines.

That same year, Ivan Pavlov began holding laboratory meetings known as the 'Wednesday meetings' at which he spoke frankly on many topics, including his views on psychology.

Ivan Pavlov was highly regarded by the Soviet government, and he was able to continue his research until he reached a considerable age.

Conscious until his final moment, Ivan Pavlov asked one of his students to sit beside his bed and to record the circumstances of his dying.

Ivan Pavlov wanted to create unique evidence of subjective experiences of this terminal phase of life.

Ivan Pavlov was given a grand funeral, and his study and laboratory were preserved as a museum in his honour.

Ivan Pavlov's grave is in the Literatorskie mostki section of Volkovo Cemetery in St Petersburg.

Ivan Pavlov contributed to many areas of physiology and neurological sciences.

Ivan Pavlov performed and directed experiments on digestion, eventually publishing The Work of the Digestive Glands in 1897, after 12 years of research.

Ivan Pavlov's experiments earned him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

Ivan Pavlov was always interested in biomarkers of temperament types described by Hippocrates and Galen.

Ivan Pavlov called these biomarkers "properties of nervous systems" and identified three main properties: strength, mobility of nervous processes and a balance between excitation and inhibition and derived four types based on these three properties.

Ivan Pavlov extended the definitions of the four temperament types under study at the time: choleric, phlegmatic, sanguine, and melancholic, updating the names to "the strong and impetuous type, the strong equilibrated and quiet type, the strong equilibrated and lively type, and the weak type", respectively.

Ivan Pavlov carried out experiments on the digestive glands, as well as investigated the gastric function of dogs, and eventually won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, becoming the first Russian Nobel laureate.

Ivan Pavlov systematically presented and withdrew stimuli to determine the antecedents that were eliciting responses, which is similar to the ways in which educational professionals conduct functional behavior assessments.

Ivan Pavlov noticed that his dogs began to salivate in the presence of the technician who normally fed them, rather than simply salivating in the presence of the food.

Ivan Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904.

Ivan Pavlov was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1907 and was awarded the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1915.

Ivan Pavlov became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1907.

Ivan Pavlov married Seraphima Vasilievna Karchevskaya on 1 May 1881, whom he had met in 1878 or 1879 when she went to St Petersburg to study at the Pedagogical Institute.