Google is celebrating Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday today with an animated Google Doodle above the search box on the Google home page. There, you can see it in motion with the color liquids moving as a result of the Bunsen burner.
While a 200th birthday seems like a more worthwhile reason to celebrate than Houdini’s 137th birthday last week, you can learn more about Robert Bunsen by clicking on the Doodle, which will take you on a Google Search for Robert Bunsen. This search might allow you to learn that Robert Bunsen (March 31, 1811 – August 16, 1899) was a celebrated chemist and amongst his other accomplishments, he and his assistant developed what is today known as the Bunsen burner, which you probably saw in high school chemistry.