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BIOLOGIST

Ivan Pavlov

1849 - 1936

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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Ива́н Петро́вич Па́влов, 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 3,617,771 page views. His biography is available in 95 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 96 in 2019). Ivan Pavlov is the 5th most popular biologist, the 18th most popular biography from Russia (down from 16th 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 841. Before him are Charles Darwin, Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Mendel, and Alexander Fleming. After him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Luc Montagnier, Ernst Haeckel, James Watson, Karl Landsteiner, and Konrad Lorenz.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 18 out of 3,262. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Grigori Rasputin (1869), and Alexander Pushkin (1799). After him are Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Kim Jong-il (1941), Isaac Asimov (1920), Alexander I of Russia (1777), and Ayn Rand (1905).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Russia

Among biologists born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Alexander Oparin (1894), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), Kliment Timiryazev (1843), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).

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