title: An emotional contribution to the Festschrift of the Journal of Biomaterials Science for Teiji Tsuruta.
abstract: It is a honor for me to contribute to the 'Festschrift for Teiji Tsuruta'! Being old, it is much easier for me to look back than to think ahead. Thus, please allow me to make a few 'historical remarks' about Biomaterials and Biotechnology, long before Science stepped in. Remarks about Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the Göttinger physicist and philosopher, and his relation to Teiji Tsuruta. And talking about him as teacher, one cannot do it without looking at Hermann Staudinger and his dreams.
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Mainz , Mainz , Germany.
authors.forename: Helmut
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ringsdorf
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009613:Nobel Prize; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials
keywords: Festschrift; Hermann Staudinger; Teiji Tsuruta