Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov (August 1, 1829, Tyoply Stan (now Sechenovo) near Simbirsk, Russia-November 2, 1905, Moscow), was a Russian physiologist, named by Ivan Pavlov as "The Father of Russian physiology". Sechenov authored major classic "Reflexes of the Brain" introducing electrophysiology and neurophysiology into laboratories and teaching of medicine. Wikipedia
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