He was born on March 30th, 1811 and died on August 16th, 1899.

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Bunsen contributed a lot in the field of chemistry. Article by Nicole Gorman, Education World Contributor, Sign up for our free weekly newsletter and receive. If you want to have the blue flame from the Bunsen burner, you just have to adjust the bottom of the tube. Overview Bunsen burners present fire hazards. The Bunsen burner was created in 1855, and is named after its inventor, Doctor Robert Bunsen. Named for Robert Bunsen, the German chemist who introduced it in 1855 (from a design by Peter Desdega, who likely modified an earlier design by Michael Faraday), the Bunsen burner was the forerunner of the gas-stove burner and the gas furnace. When you heat an object, it will leave a layer of carbon. Bunsen worked at Göttingen as a lecturer in 1833.