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A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.

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Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.

Robert Bunsen

At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchhoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchhoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum...

Robert Bunsen

Robert Bunsen

Robert Bunsen

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Born: March 30, 1811

Died: August 16, 1899 (aged 88)

Bio: Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium and rubidium with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.

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