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ROBERT BUNSEN

Robert Bunsen was a German chemist. He was born in 1811 at Gottingen and died in 1899. He studied at Gottingen University, and at Paris, Berlin, and Vienna; and was appointed professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Gassel in 1836; at the University of Marburg in 1838, at Breslau in 1851, and finally professor of Experimental Chemistry at Heidelberg in 1852. Among his many discoveries and inventions are the production of magnesium in quantities, magnesium light, spectrum analysis, the Bunsen burner, etc.
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