 Hans Selye 1907-1982
Hans Selye was born
in 1907. As early as his second year of medical school (1926), he began developing his
now-famous theory of the influence of stress on people's ability to cope with and adapt to
the pressures of injury and disease. He discovered that patients with a variety of
ailments manifested many similar symptoms, which he ultimately attributed to their bodies'
efforts to respond to the stresses of being ill. He called this collection of
symptoms--this separate stress disease--stress syndrome, or the general adaptation
syndrome (GAS).
He spent a lifetime in continuing research on GAS and wrote some 30 books and more than
1,500 articles on stress and related problems, including Stress without Distress
(1974) and The Stress of Life (1956). So impressive have his findings and theories
been that some authorities refer to him as "the Einstein of medicine."
A physician and endocrinologist with many honorary degrees for his pioneering
contributions to science, Selye also served as a professor and director of the Institute
of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal. More than anyone else,
Selye has demonstrated the role of emotional responses in causing or combating much of the
wear and tear experienced by human beings throughout their lives. He died in 1982 in
Montreal, where he had spent 50 years studying the causes and consequences of stress.
Selye’s 90th birth anniversary was celebrated by the predecessor of the current
meeting in 1997 resulting in a stamp and a proceedings volume to commemorate his achievements. We hope that the
current congress will bring together researchers of the stress field from all around the
world to remember Hans Selye and share their recent data.
 Special session and fine arts exhibition to
commemorate Hans Selye
When stress meets art:
A fine art exhibition called "STRESS" will be organized in
cooperation with the Downtown Artists Society (www.downtownartists.hu) and the Hans Selye Hungarian Society of
Behavioral Science to commemorate Hans Selye.
Well-known Hungarian artists are invited to create and present their
oeuvres inspired by the Stress topic.
The planned date of the Opening ceremony of the exhibition is 2.00 pm August 24th,
Professor Lóránd Bertók will deliver the opening speech which will be followed by
commemorative talks of other former Hans Selye students and co-workers: István Bérczi,
György Lázár, Árpád Somogyi and Sándor Szabó.
Opening ceremony of the fine arts exhibition “STRESS” and Hans Selye
commemorative session on August 24,
2007, from 14.00-15.30
14.00 Opening ceremony
Stress at alL
Lóránd Bertók “Frédéric Joliot-Curie” National Research
Institute for Radiobiology and Radiohygiene, Budapest, Hungary.
14.20-15.30 Commemorative talks and round table discussion
Moderator: Adrienne Stauder, Institute of Behavioural
Sciences, Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary
MULTITALENTED HANS SELYE: AN ORIGINAL GENERATOR
AND A LEGENDARY COMMUNICATOR OF SCIENCE
Árpád Somogyi, European Affairs of the Toxicology Forum, Berlin,
Germany
THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY OF HANS SELYE
István Berczi Department of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine,
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
WHY SELYE DID NOT GET THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR STRESS OR THE CLASSIFICATION
AND NOMENCLATURE OF STEROIDS?
Sandor Szabo, VA Medical Center & School
of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Long Beach, CA, USA
ONE YEAR WITH PROFESSOR HANS SELYE, THE FATHER OF STRESS CONCEPT
George Lázár, Institute of Pathology,
Science University of Szeged, Hungary
15.30-17.00 Informal round table discussion with the participants
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Hans Selye Centennial Symposium on STRESS: BASIC
MECHANISMS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
July 11-14, 2007, at the Université du Québec á Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada
The deadline for abstract submission for both oral and poster presentations is July 25.
To submit an abstract, please visit www.stress2007.med.ucla.edu.
If you have any questions about abstract submission or technical difficulties with the
website, please contact Webmaster Cathy Liu ( clliu@ucla.edu
) at any time. For questions on any other aspect of the Symposium, please contact the
Registration Secretariat, Teresa Olivas ( tolivas@mednet.ucla.edu
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Centenial Conference on Hans Selye
 in Komarno/Révkomárom (January 26th
2007)
A centenial Hans Selye conference was held on the former famous inhabitant of the city
on his 100th anniversary birthday, in Komarom. In the program participants commemorated
Selye at the Selye memorial (see picture on the right). Lectures summarized Selye's role
in the history of science (Tihamér Lacza), gave a personal memory of the eminent
scientist (Lóránd Bertók) and gave an account on the legacy of Hans Selye in stress
research (Mária Kopp) and
in the memory of people (Margit Erdélyi, Viktória Horváth, Lilla Csepregi
and Attila T. Szabó).
An excellent summary on Hans Selye’s life and work as a member of the Canadian
Medical Hall of Fame:
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/?laur_id=71
A video on Hans Selye:
www.cdnmedhall.org/laureates/video/?mov=selye_h.mov
 Hans Selye stamp
The Hungarian Postal Service will issue an official stamp to commemorate the Congress
and the 100th birth anniversary of Hans Selye. We will have a special post office at the
Congress venue with special envelopes and stamps for the first day issue of the stamp at
the opening day of the Congress.
Pictures on Hans Selye
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