Editing List of biologists (section)

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*[[Margaret Bradshaw]] (born 1941), New Zealand Antarctic researcher who has worked on Devonian invertebrate palaeontology
*[[Johann Friedrich von Brandt]] (1802–1879),<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Brandt</ref> German-Russian naturalist who described various birds; also an entomologist, specialising in beetles and millipedes
*[[Sara Branham Matthews]] (1888–1962), American microbiologist and physician best known for her research into the isolation and treatment of ''Neisseria meningitidis''
*[[Christian Ludwig Brehm]] (1787–1864), German ornithologist who described many German species of birds
*[[Alfred Brehm]] (1829–1884), German zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: A.E. Brehm</ref> author of many works on animals and especially birds
*[[Sydney Brenner]] (1927–2019), British molecular biologist who worked on the genetic code, and later established the roundworm ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' as a model organism for developmental biology. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)
*[[Thomas Mayo Brewer]] (1814–1880), American naturalist, specializing in ornithology and oology (the study of birds' eggs)
*[[William Brewster (ornithologist)|William Brewster]] (1851–1919), American ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Brewster</ref> curator of mammals and birds at  Harvard. 
*[[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] (1723–1806), French zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Brisson</ref> author of ''Le Règne animal'' and  ''Ornithologie''
*[[Nathaniel Lord Britton]] (1859–1934), American botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Britton</ref> coauthor of ''Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada, and the British Possessions''
*[[Thomas D. Brock]] (1926–2021), American microbiologist who discovered of hyperthermophiles such as ''Thermus aquaticus''
*[[Adolphe Theodore Brongniart]] (1801–1876), French botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Brongn.</ref> author of many works, including ''Histoire des végétaux fossiles''
*[[Robert Broom]] (1866–1951), South African paleontologist, author many many papers and books, including ''The mammal-like reptiles of South Africa and the origin of mammals''
*[[Adrian John Brown]] (1852–1920), British expert on brewing and malting, pioneer of enzyme kinetics
*[[James Brown (ecologist)|James H. Brown]] (born 1942), American ecologist known for his metabolic theory of ecology
*[[Patrick O. Brown]] (born 1954), American biochemist who has developed experimental methods with DNA microarrays to investigate genome organization
*[[Robert Brown (Scottish botanist from Montrose)|Robert Brown]] (1773–1858), Scottish botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: R.Br.</ref> known for pioneering use of the microscope in botany
*[[David Bruce (microbiologist)|David Bruce]] (1855–1931), Scottish pathologist and microbiologist who investigated Malta fever (now called brucellosis) and discovered trypanosomes
*[[Jean Guillaume Bruguière]] (1750–1798), French naturalist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bruguière</ref> mainly interested in molluscs and other invertebrates
*[[Thomas Bruice]] (1925–2019), American bioorganic chemist, pioneer of chemical biology
*[[Morten Thrane Brünnich]] (1737–1827), Danish zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Brünnich</ref> author of ''Ornithologia Borealis'' and ''Ichthyologia Massiliensis''
*[[Francis Buchanan-Hamilton]] (1762–1829), Scottish zoologist and botanist who studied plants and fishes in India
*[[Eduard Buchner]] (1860–1917), German chemist and physiologist who overthrew the doctrine of vitalism by showing that fermentation occurred in cell-free extracts of yeast
*[[Linda B. Buck]] (born 1947), American physiologist noted for work on the olfactory system. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2004).
*[[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Buffon]] (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 1707–1788), French naturalist.<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Buffon</ref> Author of many works in evolution, including ''Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière''.
*[[Walter Buller]] (1838–1906), New Zealand naturalist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Buller</ref> a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. Author of ''A History of the Birds of New Zealand''.
*[[Alexander G. von Bunge]] (1803–1890), German-Russian botanist who studied Mongolian flora.
*[[Luther Burbank]] (1849–1926), American horticulturalist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants, many of commercial importance
*[[Hermann Burmeister]] (1807–1892), German Argentinian zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Burmeister</ref> entomologist, herpetologist, and botanist, who described many new species of amphibians and reptiles
*[[Frank Macfarlane Burnet]] (1899–1985), Australian virologist. Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and for developing the theory of clonal selection.
*[[Carolyn Burns]] (born 1942), New Zealand ecologist who studies the  physiology and population dynamics of southern hemisphere zooplankton and food-web interactions
*[[Robert H. Burris]] (1914–2010), American biochemist, expert on nitrogen fixation
*[[Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist)|Carlos Bustamante]] (born 1951), Peruvian-American biophysicist who uses "molecular tweezers" to manipulate DNA for biochemical experiments
*[[Ernesto Bustamante]] (born 1950), Peruvian biochemist, specialist in mitochondria demonstrated the importance of mitochondrial hexokinase in glycolysis in rapidly growing malignant tumour cells. He currently works on DNA paternity testing.