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Robert Bunsen
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Person

Robert Bunsen

1811 – 1899 · aged 88

German chemist (1811-1899)

Born
30 Mar 1811 · Göttingen
Died
16 Aug 1899 · Heidelberg
Part ofGermany1,250 BCE – todayKingdom of Prussia1679 – 1918Protestantism1494 – today

Life timeline

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Showing 101 years
  1. 30 Mar 1811BornBorn in Göttingen
  2. 1834 – 1836RolePrivatdozent
  3. 1836 – 1839RoleChemistry teacher
  4. 1839 – 1841RoleExtraordinary professor
  5. 1839AwardHonorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
  6. 1841 – 1851RoleProfessor
  7. 1851RoleProfessor
  8. 1852 – 1889RoleProfessor
  9. 1858AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 1860AwardCopley Medal
  11. 1864AwardPour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
  12. 1865AwardBavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
  13. 1877AwardDavy Medal
  14. 1892AwardHelmholtz Medal
  15. 1898AwardAlbert Medal
  16. 16 Aug 1899DiedDied in Heidelberg

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1811 – 1899).

  1. 1812 – 1815War of 1812
  2. 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
  3. 1853 – 1856Crimean War
  4. 1857 – 1858Indian Rebellion of 1857
  5. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  6. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  7. 1898Spanish–American War

Biography

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.

Text from the Wikipedia article Robert Bunsen, CC BY-SA 4.0

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