Sechenov
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Sechenov
| Lat: 7.1°S, Long: 142.6°W, Diam: 62 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside), Nectarian |
left: Clementine . right: LROC . Chains of craterlets from Vavilov (top right, out of the frame); all the region is covered by ejecta from Hertzprung and, likely, Orientale basins
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Ivan Mikhaylovich Sechenov (August 1, 1829 – November 2, 1905), 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.
- The name Sechenov is absent in the first edition of the book Who's Who on the Moon; a biographical dictionary of lunar nomenclature by Elijah E. Cocks and Josiah C. Cocks (Tudor Publishers, 1995). This error was detected by Danny Caes.
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