Robert Bunsen
March 30, 1811 –August 16, 1899
Chemist, Physicist, Inventor, University teacher, Teacher, Experimentalist
Lived 88 years
- Born in
- Göttingen
- Passed away in
- Heidelberg
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈbʊnzn̩];
30 March 1811
– 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
Bunsen also developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organic arsenic chemistry. With his laboratory assistant Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use.
Awards: Davy Medal, Copley Medal, Albert Medal, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Helmholtz Medal, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Education: University of Göttingen, Frederick William University Berlin, University of Vienna
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