September 26th 1849: Pavlov born
On this day in 1849, the famous Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov was born. Pavlov is best known for his research into classical conditioning. He experimented with dogs, researching how they would salivate in response to being fed. Each time Pavlov fed the dogs he rang a bell, and noticed that the dogs would salivate upon the sound of the bell, even if they were not being fed. Pavlov was thus a pioneer in the field of conditioning responses, and his experiments have coined the word ‘pavlovian’. Ivan Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, and died in Leningrad in 1936 aged 86.
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