IVAN PAVLOV

IVAN PAVLOV

• Born on September 26th 1849
• Born in Ryazan,Russian empire
• The eldest of eleven childern

PARENTS

• Peter Dmitrievich was the village priest
• Varvara Ivanovna Uspenskaya was a devoted homemaker and mother of eleven
• Father- Peter Dmitrievich
• Mother- Varvara Ivanovna Uspenskaya

EDUCATION

EDUCATION

• Ivan Pavlov was literate at the age of 7
• He did not attend school until the age of 11 because of an injury
• He was educated and graduated at the church school in Ryazan

EDUCATION

• He then entered the local theological seminary
• in 1870, Pavlov left the seminary without graduating to attend the university at St. Petersburg
• He enrolled in the physics and math department and took natural science courses.
• In his fourth year he won an award for his project on the physiology of the nerves of the pancreas

EDUCATION

• Pavlov completed his course and received the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences.
• he decided to continue his studies and proceeded to the Academy of Medical Surgery
• Pavlov became an assistant to his former teacher Tyson, but left when Tyson did

EDUCATION

• Pavlov obtained a position as a laboratory assistant at the physiological department of the Veterinary Institute.
• Pavlov investigated the circulatory system for his medical dissertation.
• In 1883, he presented his doctor's thesis on the subject of The centrifugal nerves of the heart
• his collaboration with the Botkin clinic produced evidence of a basic pattern for reflexes in the activity of circulatory organs.

CAREER

• When pavlov recieved his doctorate he moved to Germany to study
• He lived there from 1884 to 1886
• He was studying digestion in dogs
• After two years he returned from Germany to look for a new job
• In 1890, he became a professor of Pharmacology at the Military M

CARRER

• He remained the professor at the Military Medical Academy for 5 years
• In 1891 he began to direct the Department of Physiology at Institute of Experimental Medicine
• For 45 yrs it became one of the most important centers of physiological research.

CARRER

• In 1901, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for four successive years
• In 1904, Pavlov was awarded the Nobel laureate
• He carried out his classical experiments on the digestive glands from which he won the Nobel

CARRER

• Pavlov investigated the gastric function of dogs and children
• He saw that dogs tended to salivate before food was actually given
• He called it "psychic secretion"
• They were experiments designed to understand the normal functions of animals

CARRER

• In 1921, Pavlov began holding laboratory meetings including his views on psychology
• These meetings lasted until he died in 1936
• Pavlov was highly regarded by the Soviet government
• He was praised by Lenin.
• Pavlov made no attempts to conceal the contempt he had Soviet Communism

FAMILY

• Ivan Pavlov married Seraphima Vasilievna Karchevskaya
• He married her on May 1st 1881
• She went to St. Petersburg to study at the Pedagogical Institute
• Seraphima was called Sara for short
• She was born in 1855.

FAMILY

• She suffered from sickness and died in 1947
• Ivan and sara had five children one child passed
• Vladimir, Victor, Vsevolod, Vera, and Mirchik

PAVLOV'S DEATH

• Pavlov died of double pneumonia at the age of 86
• On February 27th 1936
• In Leningrad, Soviet Union
• He was given a large funeral, and his work was preserved in a museum .

PAVLOV'S DOG

• He observed that the dogs would salivate at the mere sight of food.
• Pavlov originally discovered the idea of conditioning by accident
• He later tested the concept using what became his most famous experiment.
• In that experiment he conditioning dogs to salivate in response to the sound of a bell
• Salivation in response to the ringing of the bell is known as a "conditioned response"

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