Ivan Sechenov

Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov (

Ivan Pavlov, the famous Russian neurologist and physiologist, referred to Sechenov as the "Father of Russian physiology and scientific psychology". Today Sechenov is more known for his contributions to medical physiology and neurology, in addition to his psychological work. Sechenov is also considered one of the originators of objective psychology,^[2] through his attempts to introduce objective experimental methods to the wider field of Russian psychology.

Biography

Sechenov was born in the village of Tepli Stan, which is now known as Sechenov,

• 1843-1848
  Military engineering-technical university (Russian: Военный инженерно-технический университет), in Saint Petersburg
• 1850-1856 studies of medicine at
  Moscow University
• 1860
  Imperial Military Medical Academy
  of St. Petersburg
• 1860-1870 professor at the
  Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (the founder of immunology, the Nobel Prize laureate of 1908)^[7]
• 1870
  Mendeleev
  's laboratory in St. Petersburg
• 1871-1876 chair at the
  Comparative Anatomy
  )
• 1876-1888 professor at
  St. Petersburg University
• 1889 "Sechenov's
  gases
• 1891-1901 professor at Moscow University
• 1904 elected honorary member of Russian Academy of Sciences

One of Sechenov's primary interests was

From 1856–1862 Sechenov studied and worked in Europe in the laboratories of Müller, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von Helmholtz in Berlin, Felix Hoppe-Seyler in Leipzig, Ludwig in Vienna, and Claude Bernard in Paris.

Like several other Russian

For some he was influential to Bekhterev but this may be argued as many schools in psychology and physiology date Bekhterev as a Russian scientist much earlier than Pavlov and Sechenov.

Sechenov also authored the Russian classic, Reflexes of the Brain,

• According to a study conducted in 2015, Sechenov was included in "Russia team on medicine". This list includes fifty-three famous Russian medical scientists from the
  Sergei Korsakoff, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolay Pirogov, Victor Skumin.^[9][10]

• 1860 "Materials on future of physiology", Материалы для будущей физиологии.. St. Petersburg (Part I "Some facts for the future study of alcohol intoxication", in Russian)
• 1862 "On animal electricity", О животном Электричестве. St. Petersburg (in Russian)
• 1863 "Reflexions of the brain", Рефлексы головного мозга. Medical newspaper, Медицинский вестник 47-48 ("Reflexes of the brain", in Russian)
• 1866 "Physiology of the nervous system", Физиология нервной системы. St. Petersburg (in Russian)
• 1873 "Who should and How to develop Psychology", "Кому и как разрабатывать психологию?." Vestnik Evropy 4 (in Russian)
• 1897 The Physiological Criteria of the Length of the Working Day
• 1900 Participation of the Nervous System in Man's Working Movements
• 1901 Participation of the Senses and Manual dexterity in Sighted and Blind Persons
• 1901 Essay on Man's Working Movements

Commemoration

• 1954 the area around Sechenov's birthplace was renamed Sechenovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
• 1955
  Moscow Medical Academy
  was given name of I.M.Sechenov; its campus includes memorial of Sechenov
• 1956
  USSR Academy of Sciences
  and named after I.M.Sechenov

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