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 * Robert Bunsen **  **By: adithis794 **
 * Who is he: **
 * Renowned German Chemist
 * Lived from 1811 to 1899[[image:researchthetopic/Robert Bunsen pic.jpg align="right"]]
 * Who is a Chemist: **[[image:researchthetopic/AMS- Gottingen Germany.jpg width="203" height="125" align="left" caption="Gottingen, Germany. The place where Robert Bunsen was born."]]
 * Someone who studies the matter of an object
 * Figures out what properties make up the object
 * Figures how the properties of an object affect its use, looks, actions, and reactions.
 * What is he known for: **
 * **Invented the Bunsen Burner ** – He actually modified the burner made by Michael Faraday. The Bunsen Burner is a gas burner created to not waste as much heat as blast furnaces do. The Bunsen Burner is used in many science labs to generate heat and for sterilization.
 * **Invented the Blow Torch **– //Used for metal works//
 * **Invented the Bunsen Cell **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> - //Battery made of carbon, zinc, and sulfuric acid. When burned it produces a bright light. This is used in the photographic flashbulb.//
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pioneered the field of spectrum analysis **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> with another scientist Gustav Kirchoff. He noticed that each element when heated produces a light with a specific wavelength. Spectrum analysis assumed great importance in the study of the sun and stars as it helped in finding the chemicals/elements in it.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discovered two new elements, Cesium and Rubidium **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">using the spectrum analysis method.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Developed an antidote (something that reverses) arsenic poisoning – **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He found out that iron oxide hydrate is an antidote for arsenic poisoning and this is still being used today
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">His Career: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He received his doctorate degree from the University of Gottingen in 1830
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">He worked as a professor of Chemistry in the Polytechnic School of Kassel (1836) and in the University of Marburg (1841- 1852), Germany
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1836-1842 - His initial research was all in organic chemistry (the study of the structure, properties, and the reaction of matter in various forms that contain carbon atoms) but gave up research in this area because of an accident in his eye caused during a lab explosion and moved on to analytical and inorganic chemistry.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1841 – Invented the Bunsen Cell
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1852 – Begins teaching at the University of Heidelberg and worked here for 40 years
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1855 – Announced the invention of the Bunsen Burner
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1859 – Along with Gustav Robert Kirchoff, significantly developed the science of Spectroscopy (Study of the interaction of matter and heat energy)


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1870 – Invented the Ice Calorimeter( Measures the heat of chemical reactions and physical changes)­­


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Interesting Facts: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> He is a recipient of multiple awards including the Copley medal from the Royal Society of London in 1860, the first Davy medal with Kirchoff in 1887 and the Albert medal in 1898.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mentored many famous scientists, three of whom are Nobel Prize winners.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">After he retired he started to study geology and mineralogy

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