Background
Selye, Hans was born on January 26, 1907 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Hugo and Maria Felicitas (Langbank) Selye.
Selye, Hans was born on January 26, 1907 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Hugo and Maria Felicitas (Langbank) Selye.
Student, College Benedictine Fathers, Komárom, Hungary, 1916-1924. Student, German University, Prague, 1924-1925, 27-29, U. Paris, 1925-1926, U. Rome, 1926-1927.
Assistant in experimental pathology, histology laboratory German University, 1929-1931. Rockefeller research fellow department biochemistry hygiene Johns Hopkins University, 1931. Research fellow department biochemistry McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1932-1933, lecturer biochemistry, 1933-1934, assistant professor biochemistry, 1934-1937, assistant professor histology, 1937-1941, associate professor histology, 1941-1945.
Professor, director Institute Experimental Medicine and Surgery, U. Montreal, 1945-1976, professor emeritus, 1977-1982.
President International Institute of Stress, 1976-1982, Hans Selye Foundation, 1979. Expert consultant to Surgeon General, United States Army, 1947-1957.
Fellow Royal Society (Canada), New York Academy Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pan American Medical Association (North America chairman of the section endocrinology). Member Ohio Hungarian Society, Hungarian Medical Society American (honorary president). Member foreign, national, state and local professional medical associations and organizations, in both general and special fields.
Married Louise Drevet, October 5, 1978. Children: Catherine Michel, Jean, Marie, Andre.