Bunsen and Yuan
By Yuexuan Song, 29th Jan 2023
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The scientist who discovered Caesium got mountain-climbing tricks? The globally well-known argricultural scientist kept a pet? Scroll down to check it out!
1. Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen
A German chemist who investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff. In his youth, Bunsen liked mountain-climbing but, as he aged, he developed an easier approach to climbing. He would, with his companions, select a peak. Then, near the starting point, he would pick a shady tree and tell his party to go on without him.He would sit in the shade, light a cigar, burn a hole in his handkerchief and, drawing the cloth over his face as a protection against insects, he would insert his cigar through the hole and smoke and doze until his companions returned.
2. Longping Yuan
A globally well-known argricultural scientist, being the initiater and leader of China hybrid rice. He is known as the "Father of hybrid rice". Longping is committed to the research, application and promotion of hybrid rice technology, and put forward and implemented the "plant three yield flouish four yield project", using the technical achievements of super hybrid rice. He has published 6 monographs in Chinese and English, and published more than 60 papers.
