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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
Discovered: Cesium and Rubidium
Awards: Copley Medal
Other notable students: Dmitri Mendeleev; Julia Lermontova