A tradition of research

Hans Selye

1945

Hans Selye established the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal. In 1956, he published The Stress of Life , which went a long way to establishing his worldwide reputation as the “Einstein of medicine.” The core of his work revolved around his discoveries about the stress syndrome, or the general adaptation syndrome (GAS), a collection of symptoms related to the influence of stress on people’s ability to cope with the pressures of injury and disease. With this work, the notion of “stress” entered the lexicon of modern medical pathologies, not to mention the vocabulary of everyday life.