Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899)

Professor in Marburg (1839), Breslau (1851) Heidelberg (1852). Direktor des Chemischen Laboratoriums, Begründer der chemischen Analyse. entwickelte die Chromsäure-Batterie und die Schmelzflusselektrolyse zur Herstellung von Magnesium; sob zusammen mit Gustav Robert Kirchhoff die Spektralanalyse und akte Casium und Rubidium (1860).

A statue by Hermann Volz commemorating the famous German chemist Robert Bunsen, after whom the "Bunsen burner" is named.
The statue is located in front of the Frieerichsbau building, the scientific center of the old Heidelberg University, an institution where Bunsen taught and worked.

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Translation of the text on the sign:
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899)

Professor in Marburg (1839), Breslau (1851), and Heidelberg (1852). Director of the Chemical Laboratory, founder of chemical analysis. He developed the chromic acid battery and fused-salt electrolysis for the production of magnesium; together with Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, he developed spectral analysis and analyzed cesium and rubidium (1860).