Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811 - 1899)
Robert
Wilhelm Eberhard
Bunsen
Born in Göttingen, Westphalia, Rhine Confederation (now Germany)
Son of Christian Bunsen
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died in Heidelberg, Baden, German Empire (now Germany)
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Biography
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen 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. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organoarsenic chemistry. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
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