Ivan Pavlov died on 27 February 1936 in Saint Petersburg, aged 86. A Russian physiologist, Pavlov won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for his research on the digestive system. While studying digestion in dogs he noticed that the animals began to salivate at stimuli associated with feeding, and he developed this into the study of conditioned reflexes, which became a foundation of behaviorism and learning theory. Although he distrusted the Soviet regime in some respects, he was given generous support for his laboratories. His name has become shorthand in popular culture for automatic responses to learned cues.
Before and after
- 1936Establishment of Jim Corbett National Park
- 1936Inge Lehmann discovers the Earth's inner core
- 1936Alan Turing defines the universal machine
- 28 January 1936Birth of Ismail Kadare
- 27 February 1936Death of Ivan Pavlov
- 4 March 1936First flight of LZ 129 Hindenburg
- 10 March 1936Birth of Sepp Blatter
- 18 March 1936Birth of F. W. de Klerk
- 28 March 1936Birth of Mario Vargas Llosa
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