Robert Wilhelm Bunsen’s name was famous for a a few discoveries in the field of chemistry. For example… you might recognize ‘Bunsen’ from the lab device, the ‘Bunsen Burner’. He also helped invent the spectroscope and discovered spectrum analysis. And at the beginning of his career, he discovered that iron oxide is an antidote for arsenic. Robert Bunsen was born on March 31st, 1811 in Gottingen, Germany. He was educated at the University of Gottingen, …showed first 75 words of 331 total…

…showed last 75 words of 331 total…Bunsen and was deeply involved with spectroscopy, inventing another instrument: the Bunsen-Kirchhoff spectroscope. This instrument of chemical analysis can trace its ancestry to components like a "prism, a cigar box, and two ends of otherwise unusable old telescopes.” From the beginnings came the instrument which proved to be of importance in chemical analysis and the discovery of new elements. In conclusion, Robert Bunsen has achieved many goals and discoveries during his lifetime. He died in 1899.