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Ivan Pavlov

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

IVAN PAVLOV

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  • Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born on September 14, 1849, in Ryazan, Russia.
  • He was the son of a priest.
  • He attended a church school and theological seminary.
  • Charles Darwin and I.M. Sechenov, the fathers of Russian physiology inspired him.
  • Because he was interested in science he gave up school and went to physiology.

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  • Pavlov studied chemistry and physiology at the University of St. Petersburg.
  • He received the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences in 1875.
  • After he got his degree he enrolled at the Imperial Medical Academy in St. Petersburg.
  • After finishing school Pavlov graduated in 1883.
  • After graduation, Pavlov studied under cardiovascular physiologist Carl Ludwig in Leipzig, Germany, and gastrointestinal physiologist Rudolf Heidenhain in Breslau, Poland.

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  • When he studied with Heidenhain they created a pouch that went on a dog's stomach.
  • With the pouch he maintained nerve supply and studied gastrointestinal secretions.
  • He then spent two years at a lab in St. Petersburg.
  • While there he researched cardiac physiology and the regulation of blood pressure.
  • In 1890 Pavlov took charge of the Department of Physiology.

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  • He then was named Professor of Pharmacology at the Imperial Medical Academy.
  • Five years later he was appointed to the Chairman of Physiology.
  • Pavlov focused on digestion in dogs.
  • Pavlov put pouches in their salivary ducts.
  • Then he recorded the effects of the nervous system on the digestive process.

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  • Pavlov's research led him to come up with the concept of conditioned reflex.
  • This will be known as his most famous experiment.
  • In his experiment he rang a bell just before he fed the dogs.
  • This experiment made them drool every time he sounded the bell.
  • Pavlov published his results in 1903.

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  • Pavlov won the Nobel Prize in 1904 for Physiology or Medicine.
  • He continued getting more awards over the years too.
  • Things like Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1907.
  • In 1912 he was given an honorary doctorate Cambridge University.
  • Following a recommendation by the Medical Academy of Paris.

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  • Then he was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor in 1915.
  • Pavlov's research helped lay the groundwork for many other physiologist to come.
  • He openly decried the war-torn conditions of his country after the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • Pavlov softened his tone in the last years of his life.
  • He remained devoted to his lab work.

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  • Then he died from from double pneumonia.
  • His date of death was February 27, 1936, in Leningrad.