Editing Hans Selye (section)

==Biography==
Selye was born in [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]] on January 26, 1907, and grew up in [[Komárno|Komárom]] (the town with Hungarian majority in present-day Slovakia was cut by the [[Treaty of Trianon]] in 1920).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |title=Hans Selye |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001506/Hans-Selye |access-date=2008-06-12 |edition=2008 }}</ref> Selye's father was a doctor of Hungarian [[ethnicity]] and his mother was Austrian. He became a Doctor of Medicine and Chemistry in [[Prague]] in 1929 and went on to do pioneering work in stress and endocrinology at [[Johns Hopkins University]], [[McGill University]], and the [[Université de Montréal]]. He was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for the first time in 1949. Although he received a total of 17 nominations (1949–1953)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=8395 | title=Nomination%20archive | date=April 2020 }}</ref> in his career, he never won the prize.<ref>The Nomination Database for the [[Nobel Prize]] in [[Physiology]] or [[Medicine]], 1901-1953</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/redirector/?redir=archive/show_people.php&id=8395|title=Nomination Archive|website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref>

Selye died on October 16, 1982, in [[Montreal|Montreal, Quebec]], Canada. He often returned to visit Hungary, giving lectures as well as interviews in Hungarian television programs. He conducted a lecture in 1973 at the Hungarian Scientific Academy in Hungarian and observers noted that he had no accent, despite spending many years abroad. His book ''The Stress of Life'' appeared in Hungarian as ''Az Életünk és a stressz'' in 1964 and became a bestseller. [[Selye János University]], the only [[Hungarian language|Hungarian-language]] [[university]] in [[Slovakia]], was named after him. Selye's mother was killed by gunfire during [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungary's anti-Communist revolt of 1956]].