Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (Robert) Bunsen
1811–99
German chemist. Professor of chemistry, University of Marburg, 1842; University of Heidelberg, 1852–89. Carried out important work in spectroscopy in the 1860s. Foreign member, Royal Society of London, 1858.
Sources
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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