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Robert Bunsen

1811 - 1899

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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈbʊnzn̩]; 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. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff. Bunsen also developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organic arsenic chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Bunsen is the 56th most popular chemist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 251st most popular biography from Germany (up from 299th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Chemist.

Robert Bunsen was a German chemist who is most famous for inventing the Bunsen burner.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Robert Bunsen ranks 56 out of 602. Before him are Adolf Butenandt, Archer Martin, Otto Diels, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Walther Nernst, and Rodney Robert Porter. After him are Justus von Liebig, Frederick Soddy, Kurt Alder, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Francis William Aston, and Norman Haworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Robert Bunsen ranks 5. Before him are Franz Liszt, Napoleon II, Évariste Galois, and Urbain Le Verrier. After him are Maximilian II of Bavaria, Théophile Gautier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Isaac Singer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Vissarion Belinsky. Among people deceased in 1899, Robert Bunsen ranks 3. Before him are Johann Strauss II, and Alfred Sisley. After him are Leo von Caprivi, Félix Faure, Paul Reuter, Rosa Bonheur, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Ernest Chausson, Sophus Lie, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, and Horatio Alger.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Bunsen ranks 251 out of 7,253. Before him are J. Hans D. Jensen (1907), Klaus Barbie (1913), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1086), Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620), and Alexander Van der Bellen (1944). After him are Justus von Liebig (1803), Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717), Heinrich Schütz (1585), Jacob Grimm (1785), Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282), and Werner von Siemens (1816).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Robert Bunsen ranks 14. Before him are Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Otto Hahn (1879), Richard Willstätter (1872), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Otto Diels (1876). After him are Justus von Liebig (1803), Karl Ziegler (1898), Hermann Staudinger (1881), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Carl Bosch (1874), and Hans Fischer (1881).

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