Five years later he accepted the chair of physiology at the academy, which he held until 1925. In 1890 he was appointed to the vacant chair of pharmacology at the academy, and a year later he assumed the directorship of the department of physiology of the Institute of Experimental Medicine. In 1881 Pavlov married Serafima Karchevskaia, a woman with profound spiritual feeling, a deep love for literature, and strong affection for her husband. During the 1880s Pavlov perfected his experimental techniques which made possible his later important discoveries. The following year he was appointed lecturer in physiology at the academy, won the Wylie fellowship, and then spent the next 2 years in Germany. In 1883 Pavlov completed his thesis, The Centrifugal Nerves of the Heart, and received the degree of doctor of medicine. Pavlov spent the next decade in Sergei Botkins laboratory at the academy. Two years later he completed his course at the academy, and on the basis of a competitive examination he was awarded a scholarship for postgraduate study at the academy.
In 1877 he published his first work, Experimental Data Concerning the Accommodating Mechanism of the Blood Vessels, dealing with the reflex regulation of the circulation of blood. In his paper "On the Nerves Controlling the Pancreatic Gland."Īfter graduating, Pavlov entered the third course of the Medico-Chirurgical Academy (renamed in 1881 the Military Medical Academy), working as a laboratory assistant (1876-1878). It was in Tsion's laboratory that Pavlov was exposed to scientific investigations, resulting There he studied inorganic chemistry under Dmitrii Mendeleev and organic chemistry under Aleksandr Butlerov, but the deepest impression was made by the lectures and the skilled experimental techniques of Ilya Tsion. Petersburg (Leningrad), electing animal physiology as his major field and chemistry as his minor.
In 1870 Pavlov gained admission to the University of St.
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