Robert Bunsen

<p>Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈbʊnzn̩]; 
30 March 1811
– 16 August 1899) was a German <a href="/facts/Chemist/N09K7Bdm">chemist</a>. He investigated <a href="/facts/Electromagnetic_spectroscopy/mj71FuNK">emission spectra</a> of heated elements, and  discovered <a href="/facts/Caesium/dXKN1S5k">caesium</a> (in 1860) and <a href="/facts/Rubidium/KDHSe2HM">rubidium</a> (in 1861) with the <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> <a href="/facts/Gustav_Kirchhoff/Ygfzlywy">Gustav Kirchhoff</a>. The <a href="/facts/Bunsen%E2%80%93Kirchhoff_Award/nJSrLpWP">Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award</a> for <a href="/facts/Spectroscopy/mj71FuNK">spectroscopy</a> is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
</p><p>Bunsen also developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in <a href="/facts/Photochemistry/GsXNBWon">photochemistry</a>, and did early work in the field of <a href="/facts/Organoarsenic/BW425S1q">organic arsenic</a> chemistry. With his laboratory assistant <a href="/facts/Peter_Desaga/tlE5hRjS">Peter Desaga</a>, he developed the <a href="/facts/Bunsen_burner/Q4BpEuFU">Bunsen burner</a>, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use.
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Robert Bunsen