January 26th
- He was an Austrian-born Canadian endocrinologist
- known for his studies of the effects of stress on the human body.
- Selye first detected the effects of stress in 1936 when he injected ovarian hormones into the glandular system of laboratory rats.
- The hormone stimulated the outer tissue of the adrenal glands of the rats, caused deterioration of the thymus gland, and produced ulcers and finally death.
