Robert Bunsen did a whole lot more than invent the Bunsen burner

Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (March 30, 1811 hasta 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He studied the emission spectra of the heating elements, and with Gustav Kirchhoff discovered cesium (in 1860) and rubidium (1861). Bunsen developed methods of gas analysis of many, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did a great job at the beginning of the

Robert Bunsen did a whole lot more than invent the Bunsen burner

organic chemistry of arsenic. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement over the laboratory burners then in use. Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is the name of Bunsen and Kirchhoff. Bunsen was born in Gottingen, Germany, the youngest son of four of the University of Göttingen chief librarian and professor of modern philology, Christian Bunsen (1770-1837) [2]. After attending school in Holzminden, Bunsen registered in 1828 and studied chemistry at Göttingen with straw Friedrich Meyer, the degree of Ph.D. in 1831. In 1832 and 1833 he traveled to Germany, France and Austria, Friedrich Runge (who discovered aniline and in 1819 isolated caffeine), Justus von Liebig in Giessen and Mitscherlich Eilhard met in Bonn.

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