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Robert Bunsen - chemist

"A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all." ~Robert Bunsen

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BIO

Robert Bunsen was born in 1811 in Göttingen, Germany. Bunsen studied at the University of Göttingen, where he later became a professor.

Working with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff, Bunsen pioneered the use of emission spectroscopy in chemical analysis. With that technique, Bunsen and Kirchhoff discovered the elements cesium and rubidium.