Many people associate the word Bunsen with a gas burner used in school laboratories. Although generally known for his work on perfecting the Bunsen burner, which was actually an invention of Michael Faraday, Robert Bunsen's true claim to fame is...

Robert Bunsen is best known for his invention of the improved gas flame device which bears his name: the Bunsen burner. However, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen's contributions to science extend far beyond this one invention; he developed a number of...

The German chemist and physicist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) was one of the great experimental chemists and a pioneer of chemical spectroscopy. Robert Bunsen was born on March 31, 1811, in the university town of Göttingen. His father was...

1811-1899 German chemist who popularized and improved the bunsen burner, a small tabletop torch whose high-temperature, nonluminous flame was perfect for his pioneering spectroscopy experiments. It has since become standard laboratory equipment. Bunsen...

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Let's play a little word association. Chemistry! What comes to mind? Beakers? Formulas? Molecules? Maybe. But chances are that "Bunsen burner" rolled off many a tongue. There is probably no other piece of equipment as closely associated with chemistry as that ubiquitous little...

Scientists in the United States are slipping out of their lab coats into something more comfortable. Robert Valentini was once merely an assistant professor at Brown University, studying techniques for healing damaged tissue. From now on, however, he is "Dr September", a smouldering...