title: [Hans Selye, the grandmaster of creativity and originality].
abstract: Hans Selye, the father of the stress concept, was a giant of science of the twentieth century. Beyond his best-known work on stress, he also made several discoveries on various other fields of experimental medicine. He described and characterized various pluricausal diseases. In addition, he made pivotal contributions to the broad field of endocrinology, especially to the classification of steroids and to our better understanding of their mode of action. He developed surgical technics and experimental animal models suitable for studying the pathogenesis and prevention of human diseases. Selye was an extremely well educated, highly intelligent and disciplined individual, an original and creative scientist, an outstanding teacher, a philosopher, a prolific author, a fabulous communicator and a gifted organizer successfully establishing, developing and managing a major academic research institution, the word-famous Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery of the University of Montreal.
authors: Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde D-12309 Berlin, Töpchiner Weg 163., Németország.
authors: Árpád
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authors: Somogyi
mesh_terms: D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000266:history*; D001319:Authorship; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history*; D002170:Canada; D003142:Communication; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D003405:Creativity; D004704:Endocrinology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006814:Hungary; D007857:Leadership; D058028:Research Report / Q000266:history; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*; D013312:Stress, Physiological
keywords: Selye; pluricausal diseases; plurikauzális betegségek; steroids; stress; stressz; szteroidok