Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14 1849 - February 27 1936) was a Russian physiologist, psychologist and physician who first described the phenomenon now known as conditioning in experiments with dogs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904.

Reference

• Boakes, R. A. (1984). From Darwin to behaviourism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Pavlov, I. P. (1927). Conditioned reflexes. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7