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János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye CC (/ ˈ s ɛ l j eɪ / [dubious – discuss]; Hungarian: Selye János Hungarian pronunciation:; January 26, 1907 – October 16, 1982) was a pioneering Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors.
Selye was the first scientist to identify ‘stress’ as underpinning the nonspecific signs and symptoms of illness. The stress concept re-entered Selye’s life during his fellowship at McGill when Prof Collip placed him in charge of identifying various female sex hormones that were yet undiscovered.
Hans Selye was an endocrinologist known for his studies of the effects of stress on the human body. Selye was educated at the German University of Prague (M.D., 1929; Ph.D., 1931) and at the universities of Paris and Rome.
Mar 10, 2016 · Selye was a medical researcher in Montreal who studied hormonal changes in rats when, in the late 1930s, he realized that the rats he was studying were responding not merely to his...
Hans Selye, endocrinologist, world-famous pioneer and popularizer of research on "biological stress" in human individuals and groups (b at Vienna, Austria 26 Jan 1907; d at Montréal 16 Oct 1982). Educated in Prague, Paris and Rome, he joined the staff of McGill in 1932.
Feb 12, 2023 · Hans Selye who wrote “Stress is the spice of life” is the founding father of the concept of general adaptation syndrome. His notoriety earned him the title of “Einstein of Medicine”.
Jul 30, 2012 · Hans Selye, MD, PhD, DSc, FRS (Canada) was the recipient of the highest state decoration in Canada: “Companion of the Order of Canada”, but did not receive the Nobel Prize despite being nominated about 10 times, as recently released records indicate.
According to many stress researchers, as well as historians, modern biological formulations of stress can be traced back to a brief and rather speculative article written by the Austrian-born Hungarian scientist Hans Selye (1907–82) in 1936.
