1849 - 1936
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (Russian: Ива́н Петро́вич Па́влов, IPA: [ɪˈvan pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈpavləf] (listen); 26 September [O.S. 14 September] 1849 – 27 February 1936) was a Soviet and Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning. From his childhood days, Pavlov demonstrated intellectual curiosity along with an unusual energy which he referred to as "the instinct for research". Inspired by the progressive ideas which Dmitry Pisarev, a Russian literary critic of the 1860s, and Ivan Sechenov, the father of Russian physiology, were spreading, Pavlov abandoned his religious career and devoted his life to science. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Pavlov has received more than 3,084,305 page views. His biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Ivan Pavlov is the 5th most popular biologist, the 16th most popular biography from Russia (up from 17th 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, Ivan Pavlov ranks 5 out of 844. 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, Karl Landsteiner, James Watson, and Luc Montagnier.
1809 - 1882
HPI: 93.29
Rank: 1
1707 - 1778
HPI: 91.07
Rank: 2
1822 - 1884
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 3
1881 - 1955
HPI: 86.31
Rank: 4
1849 - 1936
HPI: 86.11
Rank: 5
1632 - 1723
HPI: 83.69
Rank: 6
1744 - 1829
HPI: 83.09
Rank: 7
1834 - 1919
HPI: 81.24
Rank: 8
1903 - 1989
HPI: 81.10
Rank: 9
1868 - 1943
HPI: 80.37
Rank: 10
1928 - Present
HPI: 79.72
Rank: 11
1932 - Present
HPI: 79.40
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1849, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are August Strindberg, Muhammad Abduh, August von Mackensen, Felix Klein, Édouard-Henri Avril, John William Waterhouse, Bernhard von Bülow, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Alfred von Tirpitz, Bertha Benz, and John Ambrose Fleming. Among people deceased in 1936, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling, George V, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Lev Kamenev, Ferdinand Tönnies, Luigi Pirandello, Grigory Zinoviev, and Albert Fish.
1849 - 1936
HPI: 86.11
Rank: 1
1849 - 1912
HPI: 81.20
Rank: 2
1849 - 1905
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 3
1849 - 1945
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 4
1849 - 1925
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 5
1849 - 1928
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 6
1849 - 1917
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 7
1849 - 1929
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 8
1849 - 1924
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 9
1849 - 1930
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 10
1849 - 1944
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 11
1849 - 1945
HPI: 71.14
Rank: 12
1849 - 1936
HPI: 86.11
Rank: 1
1868 - 1936
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 2
1898 - 1936
HPI: 81.64
Rank: 3
1865 - 1936
HPI: 81.42
Rank: 4
1865 - 1936
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 5
1881 - 1936
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 6
1880 - 1936
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 7
1883 - 1936
HPI: 76.86
Rank: 8
1855 - 1936
HPI: 76.81
Rank: 9
1867 - 1936
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 10
1883 - 1936
HPI: 76.09
Rank: 11
1870 - 1936
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 12
Among people born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 16 out of 2,688. Before him are Peter the Great (1672), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Vladimir Putin (1952), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), and Nikita Khrushchev (1894). After him are Grigori Rasputin (1869), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Kim Jong-il (1941), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), and Maxim Gorky (1868).
1672 - 1725
HPI: 87.89
Rank: 10
1799 - 1837
HPI: 87.86
Rank: 11
1952 - Present
HPI: 87.64
Rank: 12
1868 - 1918
HPI: 87.21
Rank: 13
1530 - 1584
HPI: 86.75
Rank: 14
1894 - 1971
HPI: 86.69
Rank: 15
1849 - 1936
HPI: 86.11
Rank: 16
1869 - 1916
HPI: 85.82
Rank: 17
1931 - 2007
HPI: 85.73
Rank: 18
1882 - 1971
HPI: 85.30
Rank: 19
1941 - 2011
HPI: 85.08
Rank: 20
1866 - 1944
HPI: 85.01
Rank: 21
1868 - 1936
HPI: 84.53
Rank: 22
Among biologists born in Russia, Ivan Pavlov ranks 1. After him are Peter Kropotkin (1842), Nikolai Vavilov (1887), Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Alexander Oparin (1894), Nikolay Pirogov (1810), Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Alexander von Middendorff (1815), Nikolai Severtzov (1827), and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur (1799).
1849 - 1936
HPI: 86.11
Rank: 1
1842 - 1921
HPI: 79.26
Rank: 2
1887 - 1943
HPI: 76.73
Rank: 3
1855 - 1935
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 4
1863 - 1945
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 5
1864 - 1920
HPI: 72.10
Rank: 6
1894 - 1980
HPI: 71.47
Rank: 7
1810 - 1881
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 8
1870 - 1932
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 9
1815 - 1894
HPI: 64.42
Rank: 10
1827 - 1885
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 11
1799 - 1878
HPI: 62.28
Rank: 12