Robert Bunsen
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Robert Bunsen was a German chemist who lived from 1811 to 1899 and made important contributions to chemistry during the 19th century. He is most famous for developing the Bunsen burner, a laboratory tool that is still widely used today for heating substances in scientific experiments.
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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen ( German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈbʊnzn̩]; 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. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
Bunsen also developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organic arsenic chemistry. With his laboratory assistant Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use.
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1811 births1899 deaths19th-century German chemists19th-century German inventorsAcademic staff of Heidelberg UniversityAcademic staff of Marburg UniversityAcademic staff of the University of BreslauBattery inventorsCaesiumCorresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of SciencesDiscoverers of chemical elementsForeign associates of the National Academy of Sciences