The crater Bunsen on the Moon was named after him
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Robert Bunsen
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen 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.
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science · German chemist (1811–1899) · chemist · physicist · inventor · university teacher · teacher · experimentalist · naturalist · also Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen, Robert William Bunsen, Bunsen
Born 30 March 1811 · Died 16 August 1899 · Q71031
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1899· 1 entry
Died 1899-08-16.
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1898· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1898).
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1892· 1 entry
Won Helmholtz Medal (1892).
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1889· 1 entry
At the age of 78, he shifted his work solely to geology and mineralogy, interests which he had pursued throughout his career
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1877· 2 entries
Won Davy Medal (1877).
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Robert Bunsen together with Gustav Robert Kirchhoff were the first recipients of the prestigious Davy Medal "for their researches and discoveries in spectrum analysis"
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1865· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1865).
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1864· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1864).
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1860· 3 entries
Won Copley Medal (1860).
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And rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff
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Bunsen was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1859· 1 entry
And joined Gustav Kirchhoff to study emission spectra of heated elements, a research area called spectrum analysis
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1858· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1858).
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1852· 2 entries
Career landmark: professor (1852–1889).
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In which they studied the photochemical formation of hydrogen chloride (HCl) from hydrogen and chlorine
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1851· 1 entry
Accepted a professorship at the University of Breslau, where he taught for three semesters
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1841· 2 entries
Bunsen created the Bunsen cell battery, using a carbon electrode instead of the expensive platinum electrode used in William Robert Grove's electrochemical cell
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Career landmark: professor (1841–1851).
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1839· 2 entries
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1839).
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Career landmark: extraordinary professor (1839–1841).
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1836· 2 entries
Bunsen succeeded Friedrich Wöhler at the Polytechnic School of Kassel (German: Baugewerkschule Kassel)
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Career landmark: chemistry teacher (1836–1839).
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1834· 1 entry
Career landmark: Privatdozent (1834–1836).
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1833· 1 entry
Bunsen became a lecturer at Göttingen and began experimental studies of the (in)solubility of metal salts of arsenous acid
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1831· 1 entry
Bunsen spent 1832 and 1833 traveling in France, Germany, and Austria
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1828· 2 entries
And studied chemistry with Friedrich Stromeyer, mineralogy with Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann, and mathematics with Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Studied at University of Göttingen (1828).
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1819· 1 entry
Isolated caffeine), Justus von Liebig in Giessen, and Eilhard Mitscherlich in Bonn
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1811· 2 entries
In what is now the state of Lower Saxony in Germany
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Born 1811-03-30.
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