BIOLOGIST

Ivan Pavlov

1849 - 1936

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Иван Петрович Павлов, IPA: [ɪˈvan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈpavləf] ; 26 September [O.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Pavlov has received more than 4,035,086 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Ivan Pavlov is the 5th most popular biologist, the 20th most popular biography from Russia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Biologist.

Ivan Pavlov was most famous for his work in classical conditioning. He found that if he rang a bell before feeding his dogs, the dogs would start to salivate just at the sound of the bell.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ivan Pavlov ranks 5 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Mendel, and Alexander Fleming. After him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ernst Haeckel, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Cuvier, Rosalind Franklin, and James Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are August Strindberg, Muhammad Abduh, August von Mackensen, Édouard-Henri Avril, Felix Klein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Bernhard von Bülow, John William Waterhouse, Alfred von Tirpitz, Sergei Witte, and Bertha Benz. Among people deceased in 1936, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, George V, Luigi Pirandello, Antoine Meillet, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, Lev Kamenev, and Ferdinand Tönnies.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 20 out of 3,761. Before him are Grigori Rasputin (1869), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), and Wassily Kandinsky (1866). After him are Ayn Rand (1905), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Lev Yashin (1929), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Vladimir Demikhov (1916), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), and Kliment Timiryazev (1843).

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