Word: pavlov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb...
...Pavlov. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's ven- erable appearance at Yale's International Psychological Congress was no anticlimax to his visit at Harvard's International Physiological Congress (TIME, Sept. 2). The psychologists showed the old gentleman great respect. Though they knew of him only at second hand (through the Behaviorists), though he spoke in Russian and in highly technical terms on "A Brief Sketch of the Highest Nervous Activity," they applauded him tremendously before and after he spoke. He said that he felt justified in separating certain reflexes, as food, sex, defense, from the rest of nervous activity...
Convened in Sanders Theatre were the world's foremost physiologists. Most notable were Russia's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, "dean of the profession," 1904 Nobel Prizewinner for research on the salivary glands; Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...Pavlov. Leningrad's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was the most revered man at the Congress. Limping on his right foot he tried to avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition...
Among the distinguished physiologists who will be present at the Congress are, in addition to Krogh, Professor Pavlov of Leningrad and Professor Leon Fredriq. The President of the Congress is Dr. William H. Howell of Johns Hopkins University. The local committee in charge of arrangements consists of Cannon, chairman, and Doctors E. J. Cohn and A. C. Redfield '13 of the Medical School, secretaries...