• Rubidium was discovered by Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff in 1861 and was first isolated by George de Hevesy. (americanelements.com)
  • The significance of these lines was discovered some 35 years later in the physics laboratory of the University of Heidelberg by Robert Wilhelm von Bunsen (1811 - 1899) and Gustav Kirchhoff (1824 - 1887) (figure 3). (aal.lu)
  • In 1860, physicist Gustav Kirchhoff and chemist Robert Bunsen (1) published a long article detailing their investigations with a spectroscope (Figure 1). (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • This second flowering was marked by extraordinary research efforts across all faculties and was punctuated by such researchers as Robert Bunsen, Hermann Helmholtz, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Max Weber. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • Stellar spectra contain conspicuous, sharp dark lines, first noticed by William Wollaston in 1802, famously rediscovered by Joseph von Fraunhofer in 1814, and identified as tell-tale signs indicating the presence of specific chemical elements by Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen in the 1860s. (scitechdaily.com)
  • With his laboratory assistant Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1855, Robert Bunsen and his assistant developed the Bunsen burner, a gas burner with a very hot flame, to aid them in their electrolysis experiments to produce pure metals. (10-facts-about.com)
  • This accomplishment marked the beginning of a long and successful career in the field of chemistry, which would eventually lead to the invention of the Bunsen burner. (10-facts-about.com)
  • Robert Bunsen is renowned for his many contributions to science, particularly for his invention of the Bunsen burner in 1855. (10-facts-about.com)
  • In 1841, Bunsen created the Bunsen cell battery, using a carbon electrode instead of the expensive platinum electrode used in William Robert Grove's electrochemical cell. (wikipedia.org)
  • He created the Bunsen cell battery, which was revolutionary for its time as it used a carbon electrode instead of the traditional platinum electrode. (10-facts-about.com)
  • NAME ORIGIN: For Professor Robert William Eberhard Bunsen (1811-1899), German chemist of the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, who had observed artificial NiO. (webmineral.com)
  • For this work, Bunsen and his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, had perfected a special gas burner by 1855, which was influenced by earlier models. (wikipedia.org)
  • But the burner came first, springing from the mind of Robert Bunsen, and the craftmanship of Peter Desaga, the instrument maker at the University of Heidelberg. (hetranslations.uk)
  • Robert Bunsen develops the new apparatus and makes prototypes with the help of the University of Heidelberg's mechanic, Peter Desaga. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Bunsen created several designs for Peter Desaga. (factfile.org)
  • The birthday of Robert Bunsen, the renowned German chemist, is often disputed, though sources believe it is March 30 rather than March 31. (10-facts-about.com)
  • After retiring from his career as a chemist, Robert Bunsen shifted his focus to geology and mineralogy, continuing to work in these fields until his death. (10-facts-about.com)
  • Robert Bunsen, the renowned 19th century German chemist, is still remembered today for his discovery of the use of iron oxide hydrate as an antidote for arsenic poisoning. (10-facts-about.com)
  • Read about Robert Bunsen, the inventor and chemist who shares his name with the Bunsen burner. (teachervision.com)
  • The well-known chemist Robert Bunsen was also completing research and teaching in Marburg at this time. (uni-marburg.de)
  • Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) was an outstanding German chemist. (reedsy.com)
  • In 1859, German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff used it to identify materials that emit light when heated. (astro-canada.ca)
  • Bunsen was born in Göttingen, Germany in 1811, in what is now the state of Lower Saxony in Germany. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm, Chemiker (1811-1899). (inlibris.com)
  • Robert Bunsen (1811-1899) is often associated with the Bunsen burner, a device found in many chemistry laboratories around the word, but the truth is that he made a few alterations to it rather than inventing it. (brusselsjournal.com)
  • Robert Bunsen (1811-1899), of Bunsen burner fame, was studying arsenic compounds. (zmescience.com)
  • Robert Bunsen was born in Germany in 1811. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Bunsen was born at Gottingen, Germany, on 31 March 1811, and was a professor of chemistry at the universities at Kassel, Marburg, Breslau and Heidelberg. (geneabloggers.com)
  • The Bunsen-Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchhoff. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the summer of 1859, Kirchhoff suggested to Bunsen that he should try to form prismatic spectra of these colors. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bunsen ist bekannt für die Erfindung des Bunsenbrenners, für die chemische Bestimmung der fünf Alkali-Metalle (1860/61) und die Entwicklung der Spektralanalyse (zusammen mit Gustav Robert Kirchhoff). (inlibris.com)
  • Bunsen and Kirchhoff worked systematically to identify a number of other elements whose bright lines could be matched to the wavelengths of the dark solar lines. (aal.lu)
  • Additionally, Kirchhoff and Bunsen pointed out lines in the spectrum that, upon comparison to other spectra, were not present and proposed that these lines of light came from a heretofore unknown element. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Figure 1: The diagram of the spectroscope published by Kirchhoff and Bunsen in their ground-breaking 1860 article that established the chemical basis of spectroscopy. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Indeed, Kirchhoff and Bunsen did not actually invent the spectroscope, as is widely surmised (even by this author). (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • What Kirchhoff and Bunsen did was explain where these dark lines came from in terms of chemical composition, ultimately, the elements. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Both Kirchhoff and Bunsen, separately and together, made advances before this that certainly contributed to establishing spectroscopy as a legitimate field of scientific inquiry. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Gustaf Robert Kirchhoff (Figure 3) was born in what was then East Prussia (now an enclave of Russia) in March 1824. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • After graduating, Kirchhoff worked in Berlin and Breslau before moving to the University of Heidelberg in the mid-1850s, where he met Robert Bunsen and began a very fruitful collaboration. (spectroscopyonline.com)
  • Thanks to his long exposure time, Draper managed to identify new absorption lines in the ultraviolet region, but in the absence of a theory about light that could explain spectral lines (one would only be put forth in 1859 by Bunsen and Kirchhoff), Draper was unable to recognize the significance of his discovery. (astro-canada.ca)
  • It was discovered in 1861 by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff by spectroscopy of the lepidolite (mineral belonging to silicates). (astronoo.com)
  • citation needed] In late 1852, Bunsen became the successor of Leopold Gmelin at the University of Heidelberg. (wikipedia.org)
  • Von 1852 bis 1889 lehrte Bunsen an der Universität in Heidelberg. (inlibris.com)
  • There had been a chemistry department at Heidelberg, Germany's oldest university when Bunsen arrived to take it over in 1852, with a remit to turn it into something bigger. (hetranslations.uk)
  • But the invention he is best known for today, the Bunsen burner, became his pursuit in 1852 when he took a job at the University of Heidelberg, where he was promised a new laboratory for his work and teaching. (nationaltoday.com)
  • We celebrate National Bunsen Burner Day on March 31, remembering the history of science and the inventor behind this important tool. (nationaltoday.com)
  • We've got all the facts, features, and fun activities to set your celebrations alight this National Bunsen Burner Day! (nationaltoday.com)
  • His design grew in popularity and is still used around the world today in schools and professional laboratories, hence the reason we celebrate National Bunsen Burner Day. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Bunsen Burner Day is a day to honor the inventor of the Bunsen burner, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, who provided chemists and chemistry students with one of their most indispensable instruments. (geneabloggers.com)
  • Bunsen Burner >A staple in the laboratory since 1855 when it was first developed by Robert Bunsen, this burner is a must have. (unitednuclear.com)
  • When the building opened in 1855, Bunsen had created 50 of his burners and, in 1857, he published a description of them so that his colleagues could adopt the design. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Bunsen began developing his idea in 1854 and by 1855 he had created 50 models for use by his students. (nationaltoday.com)
  • There were around 50 pieces of Bunsen Burners made by Desaga in 1855. (factfile.org)
  • Aged 33, when he arrived at Heidelberg, Bunsen was already a well known figure in the scientific world. (hetranslations.uk)
  • Robert Bunsen is promised a new laboratory by his employers at the University of Heidelberg and desires to make improvements to the existing facilities. (nationaltoday.com)
  • When thinking of key German Scientists, I recollect our Chemistry Lab, at my school in Stockton-on-Tees, where adorning the polished benches, was, in a sense, the greatest of all scientific devices, a set of Bunsen burners. (hetranslations.uk)
  • So whilst the builders got to work on Bunsen's new lab, Bunsen himself also got to work designing a way to make gas burners more effective for laboratory use. (nationaltoday.com)
  • It's safest to leave Bunsen burners in the controlled environment of a laboratory, but there are plenty of scientific experiments you can do at home without the need for one. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Facts about Bunsen Burners tell you about the laboratory equipment used for combustion, sterilization and heating. (factfile.org)
  • Let's find out the brief history of Bunsen Burners. (factfile.org)
  • Bunsen Burners is very popular and can be found in many laboratories all over the world. (factfile.org)
  • Bunsen Burners are very easy to light. (factfile.org)
  • Do you enjoy reading facts about Bunsen Burners ? (factfile.org)
  • Honor the life and work of Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, the inventor of the Bunsen Burner. (timeanddate.com)
  • The newer design of Bunsen and Desaga, which provided a very hot and clean flame, is now called simply the "Bunsen burner", a common laboratory equipment. (wikipedia.org)
  • All that Bunsen claimed was the idea of mixing the gas with air in a tube before it reached the flame itself. (hetranslations.uk)
  • The Bunsen burner allows the user to regulate the proportions of flammable gas and air to create the most efficient flame. (geneabloggers.com)
  • Bunsen burner is a single open gas flame. (factfile.org)
  • If you want to have the blue flame from the Bunsen burner, you just have to adjust the bottom of the tube. (factfile.org)
  • Bunsen was the youngest of four sons of the University of Göttingen's chief librarian and professor of modern philology, Christian Bunsen (1770-1837). (wikipedia.org)
  • Robert Bunsen is born in Germany - the youngest of four sons to the University of Göttingen's chief librarian and professor of modern philology. (nationaltoday.com)
  • In 1841, basing his ideas on a more expensive battery, that had used platinum for one of the electrodes, he had come up with the Bunsen Cell, substituting carbon for platinum. (hetranslations.uk)
  • In 1841, Bunsen invented the zinc-carbon cell, making batteries more affordable by replacing the expensive platinum of former designs with cheap carbon - these are the same batteries that still power most household gadgets like TV remotes and children's toys. (nationaltoday.com)
  • In 1836, Bunsen succeeded Friedrich Wöhler at the Polytechnic School of Kassel (German: Baugewerkschule Kassel). (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1836, Robert Bunsen began his academic career when he accepted an associate professorship at the University of Marburg. (10-facts-about.com)
  • Bunsen also developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organic arsenic chemistry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bunsen almost died from arsenic poisoning, and an explosion with cacodyl cost him sight in his right eye. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bunsen enjoyed a significant breakthrough at the young age of 22 when he discovered the antidote to arsenic poisoning. (nationaltoday.com)
  • When working at the University of Göttingen at the age of 22, Bunsen discovered the antidote to arsenic poisoning and, 9 years later, his discovery saved his own life when an arsenic compound exploded in his face. (nationaltoday.com)
  • After attending school in Holzminden, Bunsen matriculated at Göttingen in 1828 and studied chemistry with Friedrich Stromeyer, mineralogy with Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann, and mathematics with Carl Friedrich Gauss. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1830, Robert Bunsen earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Gottingen, a renowned German university with a long history of excellence in the field. (10-facts-about.com)
  • The Bunsen burner is still used today in laboratories around the world, and is a testament to Robert Bunsen's ingenuity and dedication to the field of chemistry. (10-facts-about.com)
  • All who have willingly or under duress studied chemistry during their school years will be instantly aware of the piece of fundamental lab apparatus known as a Bunsen burner. (listverse.com)
  • Many a chemistry student probably struggled (and still struggles) with all those contraptions in the lab, and of all those contraptions, the Bunsen Burner is one of the most memorable. (dailybits.com)
  • However, we checked the University of California Historical Archive and found that one of the ten initial members of the faculty of the University, Robert A. Fisher, was professor of chemistry, mining and metallurgy in the newly formed College of Agriculture. (issuu.com)
  • In 1860, Bunsen was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bunsen and Kirchoff were honored for their groundbreaking work in the field of spectroscopy, which revolutionized the way scientists study the composition of matter. (10-facts-about.com)
  • Bunsen and Desaga were capable for making the burner after it generated the non luminous, sootless and hot flamles. (factfile.org)
  • Found in every high-school laboratory, the Bunsen Burner is a staple of our scientific education, as well as essential in professional laboratories, too. (nationaltoday.com)
  • Robert Bunsen was a renowned scientist who made a significant contribution to the field of electricity. (10-facts-about.com)
  • Today's Google Doodle celebrates German scientist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. (german-world.com)
  • Bunsen taught there for three years, and then accepted an associate professorship at the University of Marburg, where he continued his studies on cacodyl derivatives. (wikipedia.org)
  • While at University of Marburg, Bunsen participated in the 1846 expedition for the investigation of Iceland's volcanoes. (wikipedia.org)
  • His father was the chief librarian and professor of modern philology at the University of Göttingen where Bunsen later embarked on his undergraduate degree at the age of 17. (nationaltoday.com)
  • From this work, the reciprocity law of Bunsen and Roscoe originated. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the course of this work, Bunsen detected previously unknown new blue spectral emission lines in samples of mineral water from Dürkheim. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Robert Wilhelm Bunsen is presented to Jonathan F. Stebbins in recognition of his outstanding work on the structure and physical properties of materials of geological interest. (copernicus.org)
  • I can't work with actual Bunsen Burner scientists. (patheos.com)
  • Two years after the successful burner was created, Bunsen published the work. (factfile.org)
  • In 1877, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff made history by becoming the first ever recipients of the prestigious Davy Medal. (10-facts-about.com)
  • This Bunsen burner is made for Propane (LP/Bottled gas). (unitednuclear.com)
  • During his journeys, Bunsen met the scientists Friedlieb Runge (who discovered aniline and in 1819 isolated caffeine), Justus von Liebig in Giessen, and Eilhard Mitscherlich in Bonn. (wikipedia.org)
  • After obtaining a PhD in 1831, Bunsen spent 1832 and 1833 traveling in France, Germany, and Austria. (wikipedia.org)
  • Author affi liations: Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (M. was generated from LongRange PCR product. (cdc.gov)
  • At this moment of retirement Bob was sitting in the Ian G. Barbour Chair for Theology and Science. (patheos.com)
  • Along with George Coyne, S.J., Bill Stoeger, S.J., and Nancey Murphy, Bob planned what became a threshold-crossing advance for the field of Theology and Science. (patheos.com)
  • Bunsen asked to create the prototype of the design. (factfile.org)
  • After numerous laborious purifications, Bunsen proved that highly pure samples gave unique spectra. (wikipedia.org)
  • The biggest blessing to jump the dreamy fence in my professional life has been Robert John Russell . (patheos.com)
  • In 1864, Bunsen and his research student Henry Enfield Roscoe used the bright light emitted from burning magnesium to illuminate photographs being taken in low light, thereby inventing flash photography. (nationaltoday.com)