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Selye

American  
[zel-ye] / ˈzɛl yɛ /

noun

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


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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 • Apr. 4, 2017

Everything comes around; Dr Hans Selye looked into this many years ago.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2016

It could also explain the notion of “eustress,” invented by endocrinologist Hans Selye to refer to a combination of euphoria and stress, such as that resulting from watching tense sporting events.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2014

According to the late Dr. Hans Selye, the Austrian-born founding father of stress research, stress is simply "the rate of wear and tear in the body."

From Time Magazine Archive

When Dr. Selye injected rats with overdoses of ACTH, the animals quickly lost weight and developed abscesses of the lungs, kidneys, liver and spleen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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