biography
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Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm
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| male
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| lived:
| (1811–99)
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| biography:
| Chemist and physicist, born in Göttingen, C Germany. After studying at Göttingen, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna, he became professor of chemistry at Heidelberg (1852). He shared with Gustav Robert Kirchhoff the discovery of spectrum analysis (1859), which facilitated the discovery of new elements, including caesium and rubidium. He invented the Bunsen burner, the grease-spot photometer, a galvanic battery, an ice calorimeter and, with Sir Henry Roscoe, the actinometer. |
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