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Robert Bunsen
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German chemist (1811-1899)
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Robert Bunsen was an author whose works include *Gesammelte Abhandlungen Von Robert Bunsen*, *Gesammelte Abhandlungen Von Robert Bunsen (German Edition)*, and *Gasometry*. He was recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Born in 1811, Bunsen died on August 16, 1899. His writings have been referenced by 316 other encyclopedia articles.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eberhard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Place of birth
- Göttingen
- Place of death
- Heidelberg
- Occupation
- naturalist
- Position held
- professor
- Educated at
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Academic degree
- professor
- Doctoral advisor
- Friedrich Stromeyer
- Student of
- Friedrich Stromeyer
- Doctoral student
- John Tyndall
- Image
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (HeidICON 53016) (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Heidelberg
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Robert Bunsen
- date of death
- 1899-08-16
- medical condition
- influenza
- name in native language
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
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- Robert Bunsen
- writing language
- German
- date of birth
- 1811-03-03
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- Roberto Cabral
- assessment
- habilitation
- archives at
- Heidelberg University Library
- academic major
- geology
- honorific prefix
- Excellency
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Encyclopedic overview
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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