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The Pavlovian response or classic conditioning is one of the most important theories in physiology. It was proven by Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849–1936) in a famous experiment in which he showed that dogs could be conditioned to salivate at the unconscious thought of food associated with a ringing bell. Pavlov, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1904, had trained to be a priest before taking up science with a lifelong wholeheartedness – even on his deathbed he was experimenting on himself as he prepared to die. Another little-known fact about Pavlov is that his wife Sara suffered a miscarriage through having to walk fast everywhere to keep up with her husband.