Bunsen, Robert William, a distinguished German chemist, born at Göttingen, settled as professor of Chemistry at Heidelberg; invented the charcoal pile, the magnesian light, and the burner called after him; discovered the antidote to arsenic, with hydrate of iron and the Spectrum Analysis (q.v.); (b. 1811).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bunsen, Baron von * Bunsen Burner