Robert Bunsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Bunsen

German chemist

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1811

Place of Birth: Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1899

Profession: physicist, inventor, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (; German: ['b?nz?n]; 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.
Bunsen also developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organoarsenic chemistry.
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.