Ivan Pavlov - Todes, Daniel P. (Professor, Institute of the History of Medicine, Professor, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)

This is the first scholarly biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) in any language. Based upon a wealth of archival material, it weaves his life and science into some 100 years of Russian history and offers a fundamental reinterpretation of his scientific style and his famous research on conditional reflexes.