Selye

[ zel-ye ]

noun

1. Hans, 1907–82, Canadian physician and medical educator, born in Austria.

Example Sentences

But a chance meeting with Hans Selye, an expert on the body’s reaction to stress, took him to Montreal, where he was introduced to medical research at Dr. Selye’s newly created Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal.

From New York Times

In his 1936 personal-development opus “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie quoted the Vienna-born scientist Hans Selye: “As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.”

From New York Times

Selye injected rats with cow hormones, exposed them to extreme temperatures and partially severed their spinal cords to prove that all these sorts of maltreatment affected the rodents in the same ways: they lost muscle tone, developed stomach ulcers and suffered immune-system failure.

From Economist

Many studies have shown that stress has similar effects on humans as on Selye’s rats.

From Economist

Late in his career Selye came to distinguish between “eustress”, or the good stress caused by positive experiences, such as falling in love, and distress, the bad sort.

From Economist