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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. |
 | | Bunsen was born on March 31, 1811 in Göttingen, Germany, the youngest of four sons. |
 | | The burner described was quickly dubbed the "Bunsen burner," although the apparatus is not of his design. |
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