Robert Bunsen
German chemist (1811-1899)
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Updated 2026-05-29
German chemist who discovered caesium and rubidium by studying what happens when you heat elements up. His name stuck around on the Bunsen burner, the lab staple that probably burned your hand in high school.
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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen 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.
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