Gas and Hans Selye
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GAS and Hans Selye
Hans Selye was born in Vienna in 1907. At the age of twenty-five he attended medical school, where he became a physician and endocrinologist. He became most famous for his developments in GAS (general adaptation syndrome). Selye wrote thirty books and approximately 1,500 articles on stress including, The Stress of Life (1956) and Stress Without Distress (1974). He also became professor and director of Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal. He made Montreal home, spending fifty years there undergoing studies. In 1982, he died in Montreal. He was referred to by many authorities as the "Einstein of Medicine."
GAS is an acronym for "general adaptation syndrome." According to Hans Selye, it is the definition of stress as non-specific response of the body to any demand made upon it...