Robert Wilhelm Bunsen - Heidelberg, Germany
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DougK
N 49° 24.645 E 008° 41.882
32U E 478095 N 5473162
This statue of Robert Bunsen, for whom the Bunsen burner is named, stands in front of the Frieerichsbau building, the science center of the Old Heidelberg University.
Waymark Code: WMPGJE
Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date Posted: 08/28/2015
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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He was a pioneer in photochemistry and investigated emission spectra of heated elements. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. Bunsen was one of the most universally admired scientists of his generation.
A plaque on the ground near the stage reads:
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
(1811-1899)
Professor in Marburg (1839), Breslau (1851), Heidelberg (1852).
Direktor des Chemischen Laboratoriums, Begründer der chemischen Analyse,
entwickelte die Chromsäure-Batterie und die Schmelzflusselektrolyse zur
Herstellung von Magnesium; schuf zusammen mit Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
die Spektralanalyse und entdeckte Cäsium un Rubidium (1860).
The German text translates to "Director of the Chemical Laboratory, founder of chemical analysis,
developed the chromic acid battery and the fused salt electrolysis to
preparation of Magnesium; created together with Gustav Kirchhoff
spectral analysis and discovered Cesium and Rubidium (1860)."