Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1904

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1904 was awarded to Ivan Petrovich Pavlov "in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion, through which knowledge on vital aspects of the subject has been transformed and enlarged"

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