This increasing knowledge of physiological actions also led to many hormones being named according to their actions, such as growth hormone and prolactin. Butenandt, Doisy, Kendall, Banting and Reichstein were all later awarded Nobel Prizes, which illustrates the growing importance of this emerging research field. In the 1920s and 1930s, Adolf Butenandt, Tadeus Reichstein and Edward Adelbert Doisy discovered and characterized various steroid hormones, including oestrogen, testosterone and progesterone. His breakthrough work was soon followed by the characterization of the nature and activity of the pancreatic hormone insulin-a protein-by Sir Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herberg Best. Harington in London performed the first chemical synthesis of a hormone, thyroxine. Scientists also succeeded in deciphering the chemical nature of hormones and, less than 20 years after Starling had coined the word 'hormone', Edward Calvin Kendall at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, NY, USA, purified and determined the structures of cortisone (a steroid) and thyroxine (an iodoamino acid). This system of nomenclature was not always perfect, because distinct hormones can be secreted by the same gland, as, for example, with the pituitary and the pancreas. In the first half of the twentieth century, researchers thus concentrated their efforts on identifying the source of these internal messengers, with the result that many hormones have been named after the gland or organ from which they are secreted, such as thyroid or adrenal. Biochemistry was then still in its infancy, but it soon became obvious to many physiologists that a chemical approach was needed to understand the nature and actions of hormones. When Starling first introduced 'hormone' a hundred years ago, virtually nothing was known about the nature of hormones or chemical messengers. Nevertheless, the history of science has repeatedly shown how the introduction of a new word can act as a catalyst for research-just consider the words 'radioactivity', 'chromosome', 'antibiotic', 'apoptosis' and, of course, 'molecular biology'. Later in the same century, several physicians described the successful treatment of patients with certain disorders by administering extracts of animal endocrine tissues, such as the thyroid, adrenal glands and pancreas they subsequently showed that these disorders were due to hormonal deficiencies. Experimental work by pioneers such as Arnold Adolphe Berthold in Germany and Claude Bernard in France, in the middle of the nineteenth century, established the concept that some sort of chemical communication takes place between different organs in an animal.

The nature and work of chemical messengers in the body had already attracted the interest of scientists before Starling.

the history of science has repeatedly shown how the introduction of a new word can act as a catalyst for research.

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