IVAN PAVLOV (1849-1936), THE FIRST RUSSIAN LAUREATE OF THE NOBEL PRIZE Lektsii o rabote glavnykh pishchevaritel'nykh zhelez [Lectures on the Function of the Principal Digestive Glands] St. Petersburg: Tip. Ministerstva putey soobshcheniya, 1897.

– [6], II, 223 p.: ill.; 18.5 x 12.5 cm Half-leather binding of the period. Good condition. Cracks along the spine, rubbing, minor soiling, ownership inscription of E. Kartashevsky on the title page. Two photographs are included: I.P. Pavlov during a lecture. 1930s. 17 x 12 cm I.P. Pavlov on his deathbed. 1936. 13.5 x 9 cm First edition, of historical and cultural value Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) was an outstanding physiologist, the founder of the science of higher nervous activity. In 1904, he became the first Russian scientist to be awarded the Nobel Prize. The award was given to Pavlov for his many years of research on the mechanisms of digestion, which led to a fundamental transformation in this area of physiology. The results of Pavlov's scientific work, spanning a decade, along with his collaborators at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and at the Military Medical Academy, were first compiled into a single book and published in 1897