Li Bai (
Chinese:
李白,
Lǐ Bái or
Lǐ Bó; lived 701 – 762), also known in the West by various other transliterations, especially
Li Po, is a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China's Tang period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing poems are attributed to him,
[1] but the authenticity of many of these is uncertain.
[2] Thirty-four of his poems are included in the popular anthology
Three Hundred Tang Poems.
In the area of Chinese cultural influence Li Bo's poetry has been much esteemed from his lifetime through the present day. Indeed, in China he has been known as the best of the Romantic Poets.
[3] In the West his influences include many translations, adaptations, and much inspiration.
(31 March 1811 – 16 August 1899) was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with Gustav Kirchhoff. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organoarsenic chemistry. With his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, he developed the Bunsen burner, an improvement on the laboratory burners then in use. The Bunsen–Kirchhoff Award for spectroscopy is named after Bunsen and Kirchh