Ivan Petrovich Pavlov Essay

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born on September 14, 1849 in Ryazan, where his father, Peter Dmitrievich Pavlov, was the village priest. He was first educated at the church school in Ryazan and later went on to attend the theological seminary. His whole family wished that he would follow into his father’s footsteps and become a priest, but that was not the case. It was after reading The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin, and the works of Russian physiologist I. M. Sechenov that Pavlov decided to abandon his theological studies and focused on studying science. He left the seminary and enrolled in the University of St-Petersburg, where he enrolled in the Natural Sciences program. However, impelled by his overwhelming interest in physiology, he decided to continue his studies and went to the Academy of Medical Surgery to take the third course of the class there. In 1875, he completed his courses there and was awarded a god medal for his accomplishments. In the year 1881, he married his wife Seraphima Vasilievna Karchevskaya who was a teacher and the daughter of a doctor in the Black ...

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