OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 133, 29 February 1936, Page 9

OBITUARY

M. Pavlov London, February 27. The death has occurred of M. Pavlov, the world-famous Russian physiologist. The son of a village priest, Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov was born in IS-19 in the district of Ryayan, in Russia. He studied science at the university and then medicine at the military medical academy of St. Petersburg (Leningrad). He graduated as a doctor in 1833. and in 1884 was appointed “privat-doyent" in physiology but he went for two years to Germany to work under Ludwig and Heidenhain. In 1890 Pavlov was appointed director of the physiological department of the institute -of experimental medicine at St. Petersburg, and in 1907 he was elected a member of the Russian academy of sciences. He is famous for his research on the problems of digestion, and on cerebral activity and the theory of reflexes. His first achievements were on the physiology of blood circulation. He devised special methods of treating animals, which enabled him to make observations under normal conditions of the organism. His first papers appeared in .1878-79. From 1892-97 a series of papers on the physiology of digestion was published in the Archives des Sciences Biologiques. In 1897 a collective account was published in German and French, “The Work of the Digestive Glands.” For this important work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904. Most of his and his pupils’ researches are published in Russian. In 1907 Pavlov was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society, and in 1915 he was awarded the Capley Medal. After the war. as director of the physiological laboratories in the Russian Academy of Medicine and the Institute of Experimental Medicine, he added to his fame. In 1928, on the occasion of the Harvey tercentenary, he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Many of his lectures and treatises have been translated into English by Professor Anrep, of Cambridge.