Editing Ernest Starling (section)

==World War I==

During the [[World War I|1914–1918 war]], Starling first was involved in research into poison gases.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Van der Kloot|first1=W.|title=Great scientists wage the great war|date=2014|publisher=Fonthill Media|location=Stroud|pages=49–73}}</ref> As a commissioned officer he found the organization of the matter chaotic and on several occasions was very outspoken to his war office superiors. This did his prospects no good at all. Many of his distinguished contemporaries received knighthoods. Starling was awarded a [[Order of St Michael and St George|CMG]]. He resigned from the army in June 1917 and finally was able to undertake war work that utilized his abilities. As chairman of the Royal Society Food (War) Committee, he was instrumental in setting up rationing that provided needed calories and also the nutritional supplements then known. Rationing actually improved nutrition in wartime Britain. Germany had a similar food shortage during the war, but coped with it disastrously.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Vander Kloot|first1=W.|title=Ernest Starling's analysis of the energy balance of the German people during the blockade, 1914–1919|journal=Notes Rec. R. Soc. Lond.|date=2003|volume=57|issue=2|pages=185–190|doi=10.1098/rsnr.2003.0205|pmid=12848187}}</ref>