Entry into the seminary of Ryazan and studies of the current literature on natural science; 1870 entry into the natural sciences section of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at St. Petersburg University; 1875 graduation from university and entry into the third-year course at the Military Medical Academy; 1878-1890 head of the physiology laboratory of Botkin's clinic; degree of doctor of medicine on 19 December 1879 and doctoral dissertation on the efferent nerves of the heart defended on 21 May 1883; 1884 -1886 work in the laboratories of Carl Ludwig in Leipzig and Rudolf Heidenhain in Breslau; 1883 Privatdozent in physiology at the Military Medical Academy; 1890 professor in the department of pharmacology while also director of the physiology section of the Institute of Experimental Medicine; 1895 move to the department of physiology, which he headed until 1925; 1904 Nobel Prize for his research on digestion; organization of a number of major research centers, including the physiology section of the Institute of Experimental Medicine, the Institute of Physiology of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (now bearing his name), and the biological station at Koltushy (now Pavlovo); with Pavlov's active cooperation the Russian Physiological Society (now the I. P. Pavlov All-Union Physiological Society) was organized in 1917.
Degrees
M.D., University of St. Petersburg, 1883
VL Library
Eksperimentalnaja psichologija i psichopatologija na zivotnych [Experimantal psychology and psychopathology in animals, russ.], 1903; Dvadcatiletnyj opyt obektivnogo izucenija vyssej nervnoj dejatel'nosto (povedenija) zivotnych, Moskva-Petrograd 1923; Conditioned reflexes, Oxford 1927; Polnoe sobranie trudov, 5 t., Moskva 1940-1949 (≤ u.d.T.: Polnoe sobranie socinenij, 6 t., Moskva-Leningrad 1951-1952; dt.: Sämtl. Werke, hrsg. v. L. Pickenhain, Berlin 1953-1956, Bd. 3.2: Der bedingte Reflex).
Conditioned Reflexes (English translation, 1927); Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes (English translation of 3rd ed., 1928