Thursday, March 31, 2011

Robert Bunsen, join the celebration of the Google Logo

Happy Birthday Robert Wilhelm Bunsen! Today, the German scientist would have turned 200 years in fact. Born in Gottingen, Germany, Robert Bunsen leaped to the headlines for his studies in chemical and physical sciences. Among his inventions are the famous Bunsen burner, a gas burner that is in all chemical laboratories made a plinth at the base of a pipe where it exits the gas flame.

If you go to Google home page you can see the logo, mostly just with Robert Bunsen. In 1877 the scientist was awarded the Science Award of the British Royal Society. Bunsen was awarded a Medal Davy and it was the first ever Academy Award. It was a bronze medal which is depicted Sir Humphry Davy, an English chemist scientist who lived in 1900.

A Bunsen were also delivered 1,000 pounds. The German scientist is well known in the field for his studies on platinum electrodes in the stack, for those on the formation of hydrochloric acid and those on the preparation of pure metals.

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