Conditioned Reflexes

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Pawlov) - greatest physiologist and the founder of Neuroscience , was born on September 14, 1849 in the village of Ryazan, Russia, the son of Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, who was the village priest. He was an average child with average interests. That is until he read The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin, and the works of Russian physiologist I. M. Sechenov. This is when he decided to devote his life to science.

His main area of research throughout his scientific career was on the digestive process, which brought on a series of experiments exploring the correlation between the nervous system and the autonomic functions of the body.

Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine/ physiology in 1904 for his work The Centrifugal Nerves of the Heart.