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Died. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 86, world-renowned Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904 and went on to lay the cornerstones for modern behavioristic psychology; of influenza; in Moscow. Since his efforts to weld mind & body into one delighted Russian Communists, they babied him, dutifully reported his characterization of them as "half-illiterate, rough handlers of science," gave him a beautiful laboratory, a $10,000 annuity, paraded him as often as possible to convince the world of their devotion to Science...
...does not coddle very many of its people, for example its railway workers of whom it has plenty, but it does coddle its topflight scientists, with whom it is not overburdened. Sedulously coddled is the only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they proved last...
...Russian greetings to one another 1,500 physiologists from the ends of the earth (280 from the U. S.) streamed into Leningrad's glass-roofed Uritsky Palace last week to constitute the 18th International Physiological Congress. The showpiece of Russian science, 85-year-old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, mounted the Uritsky rostrum, rang a bell. Long ago Dr. Pavlov conducted an experiment wherein he would ring a bell just before feeding his dogs. Soon the dogs, expecting a meal, would start to water at the mouth at sound of the bell. Dr. Pavlov called this drooling a conditioned reflex...
Last week when Dr. Pavlov rang his bell in Leningrad, 1,500 physiologists perked up their ears, demonstrating how bell-conditioned they were to expect a speech. Dr. Pavlov told them what he had told the neurologists in London fortnight before, that dogs have the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholy temperaments which Hippocrates discerned among ancient Greeks...
After Dr. Pavlov, 450 physiologists read papers. Practically all of them were rehashes of familiar material...