BIOLOGIST

Ivan Pavlov

1849 - 1936

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Иван Петрович Павлов, IPA: [ɪˈvan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈpavləf] ; 26 September [O.S. 14 September] 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs. Pavlov also conducted significant research on the physiology of digestion, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Pavlov is the 5th most popular biologist, the 20th most popular biography from Russia and the most popular Russian Biologist.

Ivan Pavlov was most famous for his work in classical conditioning. He found that if he rang a bell before feeding his dogs, the dogs would start to salivate just at the sound of the bell.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ivan Pavlov ranks 6 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Mendel, Alexander Fleming, and James Watson. After him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Rosalind Franklin, and Karl Landsteiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are August Strindberg, Bertha Benz, Édouard-Henri Avril, August von Mackensen, Muhammad Abduh, Blanche Monnier, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bernhard von Bülow, Felix Klein, Alfred von Tirpitz, and W. T. Stead. Among people deceased in 1936, Ivan Pavlov ranks 2. Before him is George V. After him are Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, Lu Xun, Róbert Bárány, Grazia Deledda, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Luigi Pirandello, Lev Kamenev, and Oswald Spengler.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 22 out of 3,761. Before him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), and Ayn Rand (1905). After him are Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), Yuri Andropov (1914), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are Alexander Oparin (1894), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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