Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (1811 - 1899)

Born 30 Mar 1811 in Göttingen, Königreich Westphalen, Rheinbund

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Died 16 Aug 1899 at age 88 in Heidelberg, Baden, Deutsches Reich

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Biography

Robert Bunsen is Notable.

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.

Robert was born in 1811. He was the youngest of four sons of literature professor and librarian Christian Bunsen and Auguste Friederike, née Quensel (1775-1855, daughter of Carl Quensel and Melanie, née Heldberg).^[1] He passed away in 1899.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ German Wikipedia article on Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #22503

• Wikidata: Item Q71031
• Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. "Robert Bunsen"; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bunsen. Accessed 09 January 2020
• Lockemann, Georg, "Bunsen, Robert" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 3 (1957), S. 18-20 [Online-Version]; URL: https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118664999.html#ndbcontent