Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (born September 14, 1849, died February 27, 1936) was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov is widely known for first describing the phenomenon of classical conditioning.
Pavlov plays an important role in Gravity's Rainbow, the epigraph ascribed to Wernher von Braun being a reinterpretation of a portion of his book "Conditioned Reflexes".1
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- ^Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's Rainbow (London: Vintage, 2000), p. 1
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