Medal
date: label: date made
content: 1935
notes: label: Description
content: Those who attended a meeting of the International Physiological Congress were given a token representing an important scientist from the host country. In 1935, when the Congress met in the Soviet Union—it was the first time that any large international scientific congress met in that country—the token was a bronze medal honoring the Russian physiologist, Ivan Sechenov (1828-1905). This is one of those medals. The obverse has a portrait bust ¾ right and “И.М. / СЕДЕНОВ.” The reverse has a hammer and sickle and “XV / СССР / 1935.” Ivan Pavlov, chair of the meeting, acknowledged Sechenov as “the father of our physiology.”
label: Description
content: Ref: A. V. Hill, “The Fifteenth International Congress of Physiology,” <i>Science</i> 82 (1935): 240-241. J. McKeen Cattell, “Proceedings of the Congress,” pp. 241-244.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Soviet Union
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.677
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.677
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medal
label: Other Terms
content: Medal; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: medal: 1/4 in x 2 9/16 in; .635 cm x 6.50875 cm
label: Measurements
content: case: 1 in x 3 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 2.54 cm x 8.5725 cm x 8.5725 cm