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| Robert Bunsen's 200th Birthday |
Life and work :
Bunsen was born in G?ttingen, Germany, as the youngest of four sons of the University of G?ttingen's chief librarian and professor of modern philology, Christian Bunsen (1770-1837). When attending faculty in Holzminden, in 1828 Bunsen matriculated at G?ttingen and studied chemistry with Friedrich Stromeyer, obtaining the Ph.D. degree in 1831. In 1832 and 1833 he traveled in Germany, France, and Austria, where he met Friedrich Runge (who discovered aniline and in 1819 isolated caffeine), Justus von Liebig in Gie?en, and Eilhard Mitscherlich in Bonn.



