In 1939 Linus Pauling published one of the most important textbooks in the field of chemistry, "The Nature of the Chemical Bond". The work represented in the textbook led to Pauling's reception of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954. While I have no delusions that this blog will, at some future date, win me the Nobel Prize, I do hope to share interesting ideas, cool chemistry, and my molecular musings in The Nature of the Chemical Blog.
31.3.12
Happy Birthday Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen, born March 31, 1811 was a German chemist known for perfecting the burner which bears his name. While developing the field of emission spectroscopy, he co-discovered the elements cesium and rubidium along with Gustav Kirchhoff.
The wikipedia article on the Bunsen Burner suggests that Bunsen gave the design to Peter Desaga (who was a mechanic for the University of Heidelberg not a lab assistant) and Desaga made them for Bunsen. Others had made the same type of burner before but Bunsen and his students made it popular.
2 comments:
I think you should give more credit to his assistant.
The wikipedia article on the Bunsen Burner suggests that Bunsen gave the design to Peter Desaga (who was a mechanic for the University of Heidelberg not a lab assistant) and Desaga made them for Bunsen. Others had made the same type of burner before but Bunsen and his students made it popular.
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