Hans Selye, Hungarian Endocrinologist

Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (January 26, 1907 - October 16, 1982) was a pioneering Hungarian endocrinologist. He became a Doctor of Medicine and Chemistry in Prague in 1929, went to Johns Hopkins University on a Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship in 1931 and then went to McGill University in Montreal where he started researching the issue of stress in 1936. He discovered and documented that stress differs from other physical responses in that stress is stressful whether one receives good or bad news, whether the impulse is positive or negative. He called negative stress, distress, and positive stress, eustress. He published 1, 700 research papers, 15 monographs and 7 popular books including; The Stress of Life (1956), From Dream to Discovery: On Being a Scientist (1964) and Stress without Distress (1974). He died in 1982 at the age of 75

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