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Robert Bunsen

Died on August 16, 1899

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Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen (German:; 30 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.

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