He never married, possibly because he worked with such odiferous compounds, and did research at Heidelberg until his death.
He never married, possibly because he worked with such odiferous compounds, and did research at Heidelberg until his death. His first work, on the cacodyl group of compounds, proved the compound radical theory of organic molecules; however, his work  with the toxic chemicals cost him an eye and almost led to his death from arsenic poisoning. FTP, name this German chemist, who invented a zinc-carbon primary cell and the filter pump, discovered cesium and rubidium with Kirchhoff, and who is best known  for the gas burner named for him.
He never married, possibly because he worked with such odiferous compounds, and did research at Heidelberg until his death.
Robert Bunsen