Filipp Ovsyannikov

Filipp Vasilievich Ovsyannikov (Russian: Филипп Васильевич Овсянников; 26 June [O.S.

In 1864, he established the Physiological Laboratory for the Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

[4] Ovsyannikov's laboratory was used for research by such young physiologists as Elias von Cyon and Ivan Pavlov.

A series of experiments with fish breeding won him a gold medal from the Free Economic Society.

In 1871, he discovered the vasomotor center and determined its precise limits in the medulla oblongata.