CHEMIST

Robert Bunsen

1811 - 1899

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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (German: [ˈbʊnzən]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Bunsen has received more than 676,195 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Robert Bunsen is the 33rd most popular chemist, the 299th most popular biography from Germany (up from 319th in 2019) and the 7th 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 33 out of 602. Before him are Humphry Davy, Justus von Liebig, Casimir Funk, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, and Walther Nernst. After him are Henrik Dam, Tu Youyou, John Stith Pemberton, Gertrude B. Elion, Carl Bosch, and Henri Moissan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, Robert Bunsen ranks 5. Before him are Napoleon II, Franz Liszt, Évariste Galois, and Théophile Gautier. After him are Maximilian II of Bavaria, Urbain Le Verrier, Isaac Singer, Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 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, Rosa Bonheur, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia, Sophus Lie, Paul Reuter, Ernest Chausson, and Giovanni Segantini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Robert Bunsen ranks 299 out of 7,253. Before him are Sophie Scholl (1921), Martin Behaim (1459), Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1175), Karl May (1842), Helmut Schmidt (1918), and Franz Marc (1880). After him are Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1955), Hermann Hoth (1885), Michael Wittmann (1914), Moses Mendelssohn (1729), and Sepp Dietrich (1892).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Robert Bunsen ranks 7. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742), Otto Hahn (1879), Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Emil Fischer (1852), Eduard Buchner (1860), and Justus von Liebig (1803). After him are Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), Adolf Windaus (1876), and Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (1780).

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