That changed thanks to Hans Selye, “the father of stress research.” Selye was a medical researcher in Montreal who studied hormonal changes in rats when, in the late 1930s, he realized that ...

Endocrinologist Hans Selye popularized the idea of stress. His experiments with rats showed that prolonged exposure to stress led to physiological changes in the tissue of rats.

GAS was discovered in 1936 by the Austrian-born Hungarian researcher Hans Selye, a professor and medical doctor. Since then, research on GAS and stress has found a link between chronic (long ...

Hans Selye was a 19-year-old medical student at the University of Prague in 1926 when he first asked a simple question: Why do sick people, ... Selye also lectured on stress, ...

Hans Selye, who laid the foundations of stress science in the 1930s, believed so strongly in good stress that he coined a word, "eustress," for it. He saw stress as "the salt of life." ...

The Swedish physiologist Hans Selye was a pioneer stress researcher. He discovered the processes that link stress with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer.

Hans Selye defined stress as “the body’s nonspecific response to any demand, whether it is caused by or results in pleasant or unpleasant stimuli.” ...

Dr. Hans Selye, pictured in 1977, described “stress syndrome” as being characterized by three stages. Len Sidaway Montreal Gazette files In 2000, Canada issued a set of four stamps honouring ...

Dr. Hans Selye (1907-82), Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist, is known as the father of stress, defining it in 1936 as “the non-specific response of the body to any demand for change.” ...