Bunsen burner [SEP] discoverer or inventor
Bunsen burner
A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.
The gas can be natural gas (which is mainly methane) or a liquefied petroleum gas, such as propane, butane, or a mixture of both.
History.
In 1852 the University of Heidelberg hired Bunsen and promised him a new laboratory building. The city of Heidelberg had begun to install coal-gas
C. Brown (1912–2004), 1979 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Stephen L. Buchwald, (born 1955), American Chemist, Organic Chemistry, co-discoverer of Palladium-patalyzed C-N bond formation Buchwald–Hartwig amination
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the elements caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff and invented the Bunsen burner
- William Merriam Burton (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first