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By Daniel P. Todes. 488 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. $58. ISBN 0-8018-6690-1.

Between 1901 and 1904, Ivan Pavlov (Figure) was nominated on four successive occasions for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1904, his candidacy was at last successful: Pavlov was awarded the prize in recognition of his research on the physiology of digestion. In making this award, the prize committee was forced to wrestle with the difficult question of to what extent the research results that emanated from Pavlov's laboratory were to be credited to him rather than to his fellow investigators.

View larger version (96K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 1849–1936. Courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library.

 
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