He preferred buzzers
Michael D. Gordin: Ivan Pavlov, 21 April 2016
Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science
by Daniel Todes.
Oxford, 855 pp., £25, December 2014,978 0 19 992519 3 Show More
by Daniel Todes.
Oxford, 855 pp., £25, December 2014,
“... Petrovich Pavlov wouldn't amount to much as a scientist. On Pavlov's 40th birthday in 1889, as Daniel Todes notes in his magisterial biography, ‘an unsympathetic outsider might have described him as an ageing part-time lecturer and lab assistant whose only official position was Commissioned Physician at the Clinical Military Hospital, a scientist ... ”
