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KIRCHHOFF INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF THE KIRCHHOFF INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS

Das Bild zeigt die Skizze eines physikalischen Experiments — In 1860, Gustav R. Kirchhoff and Robert W. Bunsen discovered in their Heidelberg laboratory that light from heated chemical elements, when passed through a prism, produces characteristic lines. These lines allow the unambiguous remote identification of the substances involved. The two researchers published their discovery in the Annals of Physics and Chemistry. | Kirchhoff and Bunsen: “Chemical Analysis by Observation of Spectra” in the Annals of Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 110 No. 6, 1860, pp. 161–189. Newly edited by Gabriele Dörflinger, Heidelberg University Library

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Kirchhoff Institute for Physics
Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, on the 1st floor
69120 Heidelberg

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