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  • The perfection of this instrument, in the hands of two German scientists, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff and Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, came about through the investigation, towards the middle of the century, of the meaning of the dark lines which had been observed in the solar spectrum by Fraunhofer as early as 1815, and by Wollaston a decade earlier.

    A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

  • In general, I preferred naturally occurring, Frasier Crane-type eponyms, so mythological figures and fictional characters were preferred to inventors and scientists: hence the absence of such delightful names as Henry J. Heimlich (maneuver), Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (burner), and Fernand Lamaze (class).

    NPR Topics: News 2009

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