Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium and rubidium with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen... Wikipedia
Born: March 30, 1811, Göttingen, Germany
Died: August 16, 1899 (age 88 years), Heidelberg, Germany
Education: University of Göttingen
Awards: Copley Medal
Parents: Christian Bunsen and Auguste Friederike Quensel
Other notable students: Dmitri Mendeleev; Julia Lermontova