1. Hans Selye was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary on January 26,1907, and grew up in Komarom.
18 Facts About Hans Selye
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Hans Selye's father was a doctor of Hungarian ethnicity and his mother was Austrian.
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Hans Selye became a Doctor of Medicine and Chemistry in Prague in 1929 and went on to do pioneering work in stress and endocrinology at Johns Hopkins University, McGill University, and the Universite de Montreal.
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Hans Selye was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the first time in 1949.
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Hans Selye died on October 16,1982, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Hans Selye often returned to visit Hungary, giving lectures as well as interviews in Hungarian television programs.
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Hans Selye conducted a lecture in 1973 at the Hungarian Scientific Academy in Hungarian and observers noted that he had no accent, despite spending many years abroad.
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Hans Selye's mother was killed by gunfire during Hungary's anti-Communist revolt of 1956.
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Hans Selye later adopted the term "stress", which has been accepted into the lexicon of many languages.
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Hans Selye argued that stress differs from other physical responses in that it is identical whether the provoking impulse is positive or negative.
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Hans Selye called negative stress "distress" and positive stress "eustress".
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Hans Selye acknowledged the influence of Claude Bernard, who developed the idea of milieu interieur, and of the "homeostasis" of Walter Cannon.
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Hans Selye conceptualized the physiology of stress as having two components: a set of responses which he called the "general adaptation syndrome", and the development of a pathological state from ongoing, unrelieved stress.
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Hans Selye wrote both for non-academic physicians and an international bestseller entitled The Stress of Life.
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Hans Selye worked as a professor and director of the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the Universite de Montreal.
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The companies wanted Hans Selye's help in arguing that the recognized correlation between smoking and cancer was not proof of causality.
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Tobacco industry lawyers reported that Hans Selye was willing to incorporate industry advice when writing about smoking and stress.
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Publicly, Hans Selye never declared his consultancy work for the tobacco industry.