This short biography explores the life and science of the famous Russian physiologist Ivan
Pavlov focusing on his lifelong quest to understand the torments of our consciousness. Daniel
P. Todes analyzes Pavlov's Nobel Prize-winning research on digestion and his iconic studies of
conditional reflexes. He demonstrates that contrary to myth this brilliant experimenter did
not use a bell was uninterested in training dogs was not a behaviorist and was a profoundly
anthropomorphic thinker. He also explores the importance of his little-known research on chimps
and his final unfinished manuscript on the relationship of science Christianity and
Bolshevism.
