In 1879, Pavlov graduated from the Medical Military Academy with a gold medal award for his research work. Botkin, a famous Russian clinician, invited the gifted young physiologist to work in the physiological laboratory as the clinic's chief. For two years, Pavlov investigated the circulatory system for his medical dissertation. He left the department when de Cyon was replaced by another instructor.Īfter some time, Pavlov obtained a position as a laboratory assistant to Konstantin Nikolaevich Ustimovich at the physiological department of the Veterinary Institute.
While at the academy, Pavlov became an assistant to his former teacher, Elias von Cyon. Impelled by his overwhelming interest in physiology, Pavlov decided to continue his studies and proceeded to the Imperial Academy of Medical Surgery. In 1875, Pavlov completed his course with an outstanding record and received the degree of Candidate of Natural Sciences. In his fourth year, his first research project on the physiology of the nerves of the pancreas won him a prestigious university award. There he enrolled in the physics and math department and took natural science courses.
In 1870, however, he left the seminary without graduating to attend the university at St. Pavlov attended the Ryazan church school before entering the local theological seminary. As a result of the injuries he sustained he did not begin formal schooling until he was 11 years old. Although able to read by the age of seven, Pavlov was seriously injured when he fell from a high wall onto a stone pavement. He loved to garden, ride his bicycle, row, swim, and play gorodki he devoted his summer vacations to these activities. As a child, Pavlov willingly participated in house duties such as doing the dishes and taking care of his siblings. His mother, Varvara Ivanovna Uspenskaya (1826–1890), was a devoted homemaker. His father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov (1823–1899), was a village Russian orthodox priest. Ivan Pavlov, the eldest of eleven children, was born in Ryazan, Russian Empire. The Pavlov Memorial Museum, Ryazan: Pavlov's former home, built in the early 19th century Pavlov's principles of classical conditioning have been found to operate across a variety of behavior therapies and in experimental and clinical settings, such as educational classrooms and even reducing phobias with systematic desensitization. A survey in the Review of General Psychology, published in 2002, ranked Pavlov as the 24th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. 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. In 1870, he enrolled in the physics and mathematics department at the University of Saint Petersburg to study natural science. Inspired by the progressive ideas which Dmitry Pisarev, a Russian literary critic of the 1860s, and Ivan Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and devoted his life to science. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Ива́н Петро́вич Па́влов, IPA: ( listen) 26 September 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Soviet and Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning.įrom his childhood days, Pavlov demonstrated intellectual curiosity along with an unusual energy which he referred to as "the instinct for research".