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ROBERT WILHELM BUNSEN |
 | | Ironically, Bunsen will be remembered by generations of chemistry students for a mere improvement in a burner design, when his other contributions to the field of chemistry are vastly more significant and diverse, covering such areas as organic chemistry, arsenic compounds, gas measurements and analysis, the galvanic battery, elemental spectroscopy and geology. |
 | | In 1836, Bunsen was nominated to succeed Wöhler at Kassel. |
 | | Bunsen's habit was to assign a scientific task to his students and then to work with a student only as long as required to reach some measure of independence. |
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