A newspaper clipping showing Dr. Peter V. Karpovich, standing on left, with six fellow students of Dr. Ivan Pavlov. Dr. Pavlov is seated in the center of his students with his hands resting on his cane. The photograph was taken at the 13th International Congress of Physiologists, held in Boston in April, 1929. The photo was part of an article that Dr. Karpovich wrote. The article is not included.
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The XIIIth Congress of Physiologists, the first to be held outside of Europe, took place in Boston, MA, in 1929. It was a watershed meeting and indicated that American physiology had come of age.Meticulously organized, it was the largest congress to date, with over 1,200 participants from more than 40 countries.
This article is on the 78th page of the scrapbook. It is the first item on this page to be digitized;
Item is located in a scrapbook titled "Book I: 1925-1943" in the Peter V. Karpovich papers. It is the first item on the 78th page of the scrapbook.
