Editing List of chemists (section)

==B==

*[[Stephen Moulton Babcock]] (1843–1931), American agricultural chemist worked on the "[[single-grain experiment]]"
*[[Myrtle Bachelder]] (1908–1997), American chemist noted for work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb
*[[Werner Emmanuel Bachmann]] (1901–1951), American chemist, known for work in [[steroids]] and [[RDX]]
*[[Simone Badal-McCreath]], Jamaican chemist
*[[Leo Baekeland]] (1863–1944), Belgian-American chemist
*[[Adolf von Baeyer]] (1835–1917), German chemist, 1905 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], synthesis of [[indigo]]
*[[Piero Baglioni]] (born 1952), Italian chemist
*[[Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom]] (1854–1907), Dutch chemist
*[[Alice Ball]] (1892–1916), African American chemist known for inventing an effective injectable treatment for leprosy
*[[Emily Balskus]] (born 1980), American chemist and microbiologist
*[[Zhenan Bao]] (born 1970), Chinese chemist known for developing technologies with [[organic field-effect transistors]] and [[organic semiconductors]]
*[[Phil S. Baran]] (born 1977), American chemist known for synthesis, novel reactions and reagents
*[[Coral Barbas]], Spanish chemist
*[[Allen J. Bard]] (born 1933), 2008, American chemist, [[Wolf Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Vincenzo Barone]] (born 1952), Italian chemist
*[[Neil Bartlett (chemist)|Neil Bartlett]] (1932–2008), English/Canadian/American chemist
*[[Sir Derek Barton]] (1918–1998), 1969 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Fred Basolo]] (1920–2007), American inorganic chemist
*[[Esther Batchelder]] (1897–1987), American chemist, educator and specialist in nutrition
*[[Alan R. Battersby|Sir Alan Battersby]] (1925–2018), English organic chemist known for work on biosynthetic pathways
*[[Antoine Baumé]] (1728–1804), French chemist
*[[Karl Bayer]] (1847–1904), Austrian chemist
*[[Johann Joachim Becher]] (1635–1682), German who developed the [[phlogiston theory]] of combustion
*[[Kathryn Beers]], American polymer chemist
*[[Friedrich Konrad Beilstein]] (1838–1906), German-Russian chemist, created [[Beilstein database]]
*[[Joseph Achille Le Bel]] (1847–1930), French chemist, early work in [[stereochemistry]]
*[[Angela Belcher]], American chemist, materials scientist, and biological engineer
*[[Irina Beletskaya]] (born 1933), Russian organometallic chemist
*[[Ronnie Bell (chemist)|R. P. Bell]] (1907–1996), English physical chemist
*[[Francesco Bellini (businessman)|Francesco Bellini]] (born 1947), research scientist, doctor in organic chemistry
*[[Andrey Belozersky]] (1905–1972), Soviet biologist and biochemist, doctor in biological sciences
*[[Ruth R. Benerito]] (1916–2013), American chemist known for inventions relating to textiles
*[[Paul Berg]] (1926–2023), American biochemist, 1980 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Friedrich Bergius]] (1884–1949), German [[chemist]], 1931 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Helen M. Berman]] (born 1943), American chemist
*[[Marcellin Berthelot]] (1827–1907), French chemist, important work in [[thermochemistry]]
*[[Claude Louis Berthollet]] (1748–1822), French chemist
*[[Carolyn R. Bertozzi]] (born 1966) American chemist, Stanford
*[[Guy Bertrand (chemist)|Guy Bertrand]] (born 1952) French chemist, UCSD
*[[Jöns Jakob Berzelius]] (1779–1848), Swedish chemist, coined the term "[[polymer]]" in 1833
*[[Johannes Martin Bijvoet]] (1892–1980), Dutch chemist and crystallographer
*[[Leonora Bilger]] (1893–1975), American chemist who studied nitrogenous compounds
*[[Hazel Bishop]] (1906–1998), American chemist and cosmetics inventor
*[[Katherine Bitting]] (1869–1937), Canadian and American food chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Canners Association
*[[Joseph Black]] (1728–1799), Scottish chemist
*[[Katharine Burr Blodgett]] (1898–1979), American surface chemist and physicist and inventor of nonreflective glass
*[[Suzanne Blum]] (born 1978), American chemist
*[[Katharine Blunt]] (1876–1954), American chemist and nutritionist focusing on home economics, food chemistry and nutrition
* [[Herman Boerhaave]] (1668–1738) Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist & physician, first to isolate urea from urine
*[[Kristie Boering]] (born 1963), American chemist and Earth and planetary scientist
*[[Olga Bogdanova (chemist)|Olga Bogdanova]] (1896–1982), Soviet chemist
*[[Dale L. Boger]] (born 1953), American organic and medicinal chemist
*[[Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran]] (1838–1912), French chemist
*[[Jan Boldingh]] (1915–2003), Dutch chemist
*[[Alexander Borodin]] (1833–1887), Russian chemist and composer
*[[Hans-Joachim Born]] (1909–1987), German radiochemist
*[[Carl Bosch]] (1872–1940), German chemist
*[[Octave Leopold Boudouard]] (1872–1923), French chemist, discovered the [[Boudouard reaction]]
*[[Jean-Baptiste Boussingault]] (1802–1887), French chemist, agricultural chemistry
*[[E. J. Bowen]] (1898–1980), English physical chemist
*[[Humphry Bowen]] (1929–2001), English analytical chemist
*[[Paul D. Boyer]] (1918–2018), American biochemist, 1997 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Robert Boyer (chemist)|Robert Boyer]] (1909–1989), American Chemist, employee of [[Henry Ford]] focus on [[soybean]] use
*[[Robert Boyle]] (1627–1691), Irish-English pioneer of modern chemistry
*[[Henri Braconnot]] (1780–1855), French chemist and pharmacist
*[[Henning Brand]] (c. 1630–c.1692 or c. 1710), German chemist, discovered [[phosphorus]]
*[[Mary Bidwell Breed]] (1870–1949), American chemist focusing on aromatic acids, first woman dean of Indiana University
*[[Ronald Breslow]] (1931–2017), American organic chemist
*[[Alan Brisdon]], British chemist
*[[Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted]] (1879–1947), Danish chemist
*[[Herbert C. Brown]] (1912–2004), American chemist, 1979 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Jeannette Brown]] (born 1934), American organic medicinal chemist, historian, and author
*[[Jeanette Grasselli Brown]] (born 1928), American analytical chemist and spectroscopist
*[[Rachel Fuller Brown]] (1898–1980), American chemist who co-developed the first useful antifungal antibiotic
*[[Eduard Buchner]] (1860–1917), German chemist and zymologist, 1907 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Stephen L. Buchwald]] (born 1955), American Chemist, Organic Chemistry, co-discoverer of Palladium-catalyzed C-N bond formation [[Buchwald–Hartwig amination]]<ref>{{cite book | last=Tsuji | first=J. | date=November 23, 1999 | title=Perspectives in Organopalladium Chemistry for the 21st Century | publisher=[[Elsevier|Elsevier Science]] | page=125 | isbn=0-444-50197-5}}</ref>
*[[Mary Van Rensselaer Buell]] (1893–1969), American chemist who did early research in nutrition and physiological chemistry
*[[Kathryn Bullock]] (born 1945), American chemist who co-developed valve-regulated lead-acid batteries
*[[Robert Bunsen|Robert Wilhelm Bunsen]] (1811–1899), German inventor, chemist, discovered the [[Chemical element|element]]s [[caesium]] and [[rubidium]] with [[Gustav Kirchhoff]] and invented the [[Bunsen burner]]
*[[Jeanne Burbank]] (1915–2002), American chemist who developed lead-acid and silver-zinc batteries for submarines at the United States Naval Research Laboratory
*[[Winifred Burks-Houck]] (1950–2004), American organic chemist
*[[Stephanie Burns]] (born 1955), American organosilicon chemist and past honorary president of Society of Chemical Industry
*[[William Merriam Burton]] (1865–1954), American chemist, developed the first [[thermal cracking]] process for [[Petroleum|crude oil]]
*[[Adolf Butenandt]] (1903–1995), German biochemist, 1939 [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]]
*[[Alison Butler]], American bioinorganic chemist and metallobiochemist
*[[Aleksandr Butlerov]] (1828–1886), Russian chemist, discovered the [[formose reaction]]