biography
| name: |
Selye, Hans (Hugo Bruno)
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pronunciation:
[saylee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–82)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied in Prague, Paris, and Rome before emigrating to North America in the 1930s. After a decade at McGill University in Montreal (1933–45), he became director of the Institute for Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the French-language University of Montreal (1945). He was best known for his ‘stress-general adaptation syndrome’, an attempt to link stress and anxiety and their biochemical and physiological consequences to many modern human disorders. |
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