| Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born in 1849 in Ryazan, Russia, at the beginning of one of the most fertile intellectual eras in Russian history.
In accordance with his father's wishes, he attended the local theological seminary until a growing interest in the natural sciences led him to rebel against his intended career. He went on to obtain a medical degree from the Imperial Medicosurgical Academy in 1879. He then studied physiology in Germany briefly before being appointed professor of pharmacology at the St. Petersburg Institute of Experimental Medicine in 1890. He won the Nobel Prize in 1904 for his research on the physiology of digestion. At this time, he began research on conditioned reflexes in dogs, thus becoming the pioneer in classical conditioning. Pavlov spent the rest of his life studying conditioning, which he believed was a useful research method for studying physiology. He engaged in research actively until his death at the age of 87 in 1936. |
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