German chemist
1811 CE to 1899 CE
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (30 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) is a German chemist.
He investigates emission spectra of heated elements, and discovers caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff.
Bunsen develops several gas-analytical methods, is a pioneer in photochemistry, and does early work in the field of organoarsenic chemistry.
With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he develops the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use.
The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
The Bunsen burners are still being used in labs across the world.
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