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Mar 31, 1811 Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany Died on 16 Aug 1899 (aged 88)
German chemist
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About Robert Bunsen
- Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (; German: ['b?nz?n]; 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.
- Bunsen also 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.
