Hans Selye was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist, born in Vienna, who spent his career at Johns Hopkins University, McGill University and the Universite de Montreal researching how the body responds to stress. He identified that a wide range of harmful agents produce an identical, non-specific physiological response, work he called the general adaptation syndrome, and in doing so coined and popularized the medical use of the word stress. His 1956 book The Stress of Life brought these ideas to a general audience and shaped later thinking about stress in both medicine and popular psychology; he was nominated seventeen times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but never received it, and became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1968.
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Did Hans Selye ever win the Nobel Prize?
No, he was nominated seventeen times but never received it.
No. Hans Selye was nominated seventeen times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but never received it. He is remembered for identifying a non-specific physiological response to harmful agents, which he called the general adaptation syndrome, and for coining and popularizing the medical use of the word stress. He became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1968.
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János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye (; Hungarian: Selye János Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃɛjɛ]; January 26, 1907 - October 16, 1982) was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors.
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János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye (; Hungarian: Selye János Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃɛjɛ]; January 26, 1907 - October 16, 1982) was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors.
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János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye (; Hungarian: Selye János Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃɛjɛ]; January 26, 1907 - October 16, 1982) was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors.
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János Hugo Bruno "Hans" Selye (; Hungarian: Selye János Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʃɛjɛ]; January 26, 1907 - October 16, 1982) was a Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist who conducted important scientific work on the hypothetical non-specific response of an organism to stressors.
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Although he did not recognize all of the many aspects of glucocorticoids, Selye was aware of their role in the stress response.
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Two Discoveries, Not One Gland, Define Endocrinology
Hans Selye, whose definition of stress is the essay second discovery
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