Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Happy 200th
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff.
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