Editing List of biologists (section)

== B ==

===Ba===
*[[Charles Cardale Babington]] (1808–1895), British botanist and archaeologist
*[[Churchill Babington]] (1821–1889), British classical scholar, archaeologist and botanist
*[[John Bachman]] (1790–1874), American ornithologist;<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bachman</ref> also one of the first scientists to argue that blacks and whites are the same species
*[[Curt Backeberg]] (1894–1966), German horticulturist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Backeb.</ref> known for classification of cacti
*[[Karl Ernst von Baer]] (1792–1876), German naturalist (in Estonia), biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and a founding father of embryology
*[[Liberty Hyde Bailey]] (1858–1954), American botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: L.H.Bailey</ref> one of the first to recognize the importance of Gregor Mendel's work
*[[Donna Baird]] (thesis 1980), American epidemiologist and evolutionary-population biologist, concerned with women's health
*[[Spencer Fullerton Baird]] (1823–1887),  American naturalist, ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Baird</ref> ichthyologist and herpetologist who collected and classified many species
*[[Scott Baker (marine biologist)|Scott Baker]] (born 1954), American marine biologist, cetacean expert
*[[John Hutton Balfour]] (1808–1884), Scottish botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Balf.</ref> author  of numerous books, including ''Manual of Botany''
*[[Clinton Ballou]] (1923–2021), American biochemist who worked on the metabolism of carbohydrates and the structures of microbial cell walls
*[[Henri Heim de Balsac]] (1899–1979), zoologist.
*[[David Baltimore]] (born 1938), American biologist, known for work on viruses. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1975
*[[Outram Bangs]] (1863–1932), American zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bangs</ref> who collected many bird species; author of more than  70 books and articles, 55 of them on mammals
*[[Joseph Banks]] (1743–1820), English naturalist, botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Banks</ref> who collected 30,000 plant specimens and  discovered 1,400.
*[[Robert Bárány]] (1876–1936), Austro-Hungarian (later Swedish) physician. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1914) for studies of the vestibular system
*[[Horace Barker]] (1907–2000), American biochemist and microbiologist
*[[Ben Barres]] (1954–2017), American neurobiologist who studied mammalian glial cells of the central nervous system 
*[[Ewa Bartnik]] (born 1949), Polish biologist and university professor
*[[Benjamin Smith Barton]] (1766–1815), American botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Barton</ref> author of ''Elements of botany, or Outlines of the natural history of vegetables'', the first American textbook of botany
*[[John Bartram]] (1699–1777), American botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Bartram</ref> described by Carl Linnaeus as the "greatest natural botanist in the world"
*[[William Bartram]] (1739–1823), American botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: W.Bartram</ref> ornithologist, natural historian, and explorer, author of ''Bartram's Travels'' (as now known)
*[[Anton de Bary]] (1831–1888), German  surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist, considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the founder of modern mycology
*[[Dorothea Bate]] (1878–1951), Welsh  palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology who studied fossils
*[[Henry Walter Bates]] (1825–1892), English naturalist who gave the first scientific account of mimicry
*[[Patrick Bateson]] (1938–2017), English biologist and science writer, president of the Zoological Society of London
*[[August Batsch|August Johann Georg Karl Batsch]] (1762–1802), German botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Batsch</ref> mycologist who discovered almost 200 species of mushrooms
*[[Gaspard Bauhin]] (1560–1624), Swiss botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: C.Bauhin (the C. comes from Casparus, his name in Latin)</ref> who introduced binomial nomenclature into taxonomy, foreshadowing Linnaeus

===Be–Bi===
*[[George Beadle]] (1903–1989), American geneticist. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 for discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical reactions within cells. 7th president of the University of Chicago.
*[[Johann Matthäus Bechstein]] (1757–1822), German naturalist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Bechst.</ref> ornithologist, entomologist and herpetologist known for his treatise on singing birds ''Naturgeschichte der Stubenvögel''
*[[Rollo Beck]] (1870–1950), American ornithologist known for collecting birds and reptiles, including three of the last four individuals of the Pinta Island tortoise
*[[Jon Beckwith]] (born 1935), American microbiologist and geneticist who worked on bacterial genetics.
*[[Charles William Beebe]] (1877–1962), American biologist, known for work on pheasants, and numerous books on natural history
*[[Martinus Beijerinck]] (1851–1931), Dutch microbiologist and botanist who discovered viruses and investigated nitrogen fixation by bacteria
*[[Helmut Beinert]] (1913–2007), German-American biochemist, a pioneer of the use of electron paramagnetic resonance in biological systems
*[[Chase Beisel]] (living), university biology professor
*[[Thomas Bell (zoologist)|Thomas Bell]] (1792–1880), English zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bell</ref> surgeon and writer who described and classified Darwin's reptile specimens and crustaceans 
*[[David Bellamy]] (1933–2019), English broadcaster, activist and ecologist
*[[Boris Pavlovich Belousov]] (1893–1970), Soviet chemist and biophysicist who discovered the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction
*[[Stephen J. Benkovic]] (born 1938), American bioorganic chemist specializing in mechanistic enzymology
*[[Edward Turner Bennett]] (1797–1836), English zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bennett</ref> who described a new species of African crocodile
*[[George Bentham]] (1800–1884), English botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Benth.</ref> known for his taxonomy of plants, written with Joseph Dalton Hooker, ''Genera Plantarum''
*[[Jacques Benoit (biologist)|Jacques Benoit]] (1896–1982), French biologist, physician. One of the pioneers of neuroendocrinology and photobiology.
*[[Robert Bentley (botanist)|Robert Bentley]] (1821–1893), English botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Bentley</ref> known for ''Medicinal Plants'' (four volumes)
*[[Wilson Teixeira Beraldo]] (1917–1998), Brazilian physician and physiologist, co-discoverer of bradykinin
*[[Paul Berg]] (1926–2023), American biochemist known for work on gene splicing of recombinant DNA.
*[[Hans Berger]] (1873–1941), German neuroscientist, one of the founders of electroencephalography
*[[Carl Bergmann (anatomist)|Carl Bergmann]] (1814–1865), German [[Anatomy|anatomist]], physiologist and biologist who developed [[Bergmann's rule]] relating population and body sizes with ambient temperature
*[[Rudolph Bergh]] (1824–1909), Danish physician and zoologist who studied sexually transmitted diseases, and also molluscs
*[[Claude Bernard]] (1813–1878), French physiologist, father of the concepts of the ''milieu intérieur'' and homeostasis
*[[Samuel Stillman Berry]] (1887–1984), American zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Berry</ref> who established 401 mollusc taxa, and worked on chitons, cephalopods, and also land snails
*[[Thomas Bewick]] (1753–1828), English ornithologist and illustrator, author of ''A General History of Quadrupeds''
*[[Gabriel Bibron]] (1806–1848), French zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bibron</ref> expert on reptiles and author (with [[André Marie Constant Duméril]]) of ''Erpétologie Générale''
*[[Klaus Biemann]] (1926–2016), Austrian chemist, the "father of organic mass spectrometry"
*[[Ann Bishop (biologist)|Ann Bishop]] (1899–1990), English biologist who specialized in protozoology and parasitology
*[[Biswamoy Biswas]] (1923–1994), Indian ornithologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Biswas</ref> who studied, in particular, the birds of Nepal and Bhutan

===Bl–Bo===
*[[Elizabeth Blackburn]] (born 1948), Australian/US Nobel Prize–winning researcher in the field of telomeres and the "telomerase" enzyme
*[[John Blackwall]] (1790–1881), British entomologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Blackwall</ref> author of ''A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland''
*[[Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville]] (1777–1850), French zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Blainville</ref> taxonomic authority on numerous zoological species,  including Blainville's beaked whale
*[[Albert Francis Blakeslee]] (1874–1954), American botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Blakeslee</ref> best known for research on Jimsonweed and the sexuality of fungi
*[[Thomas Blakiston]] (1832–1891), English naturalist. "Blakiston's Line" separates animal species of Hokkaidō and northern Asia, from  those of Honshū and  southern Asia. 
*[[Frank Nelson Blanchard]] (1888–1937), American herpetologist who described new subspecies of snakes.
*[[Frjeda Blanchard]] (1889–1977), American plant and animal geneticist who demonstrated Mendelian inheritance in reptiles.
*[[William Thomas Blanford]] (1832–1905), English geologist and naturalist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Blanford</ref> editor of ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma.''
*[[Pieter Bleeker]] (1819–1878), Dutch ichthyologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bleeker</ref> whose papers described 511 new genera and 1,925 new species
*[[Günter Blobel]] (1936–2018), German Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered that newly synthesized proteins contain "address tags" which direct them to the proper location within the cell
*[[Konrad Emil Bloch]] (1912–2000), German-American biochemist who worked on cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
*[[Steven Block]] (born 1952), American biophysicist who measured the mechanical properties of single bio-molecules
*[[David Mervyn Blow]] (1931–2004), British X-ray crystallographer noted for work on protein structure
*[[Carl Ludwig Blume]] (Karel Lodewijk Blume, 1789–1862), German-Dutch botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Blume</ref> who studied the flora of southern Asia, particularly Java
*[[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]] (1752–1840), German physiologist and anthropologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Blumenbach</ref> who classified human races on the basis of skull structure
*[[Edward Blyth]] (1810–1873), English zoologist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Blyth</ref> who classified many birds of India
*[[José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage]] (1823–1907), Portuguese zoologist with many papers on mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and others
*[[Pieter Boddaert]] (1730–1795/1796), Dutch physician and naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Boddaert</ref> who named many mammals, birds and other animals
*[[Brendan Bohannan|Brendan J. M. Bohannan]] (21st century), American microbial and evolutionary biologist, expert on the microbes of Amazonia
*[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte]] (1803–1857), French naturalist<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bonaparte</ref> who coined Latin names for many bird species
*[[James Bond (ornithologist)|James Bond]] (1900–1989), American ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bond</ref> author of ''Birds of the West Indies''
*[[Franco Andrea Bonelli]] (1784–1830), Italian ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Bonelli</ref> author of a ''Catalogue of the Birds of Piedmont'', which described 262 species
*[[August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard]] (1786–1839), German botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Bong.</ref> in St Petersburg, one of the first botanists to describe the plants of Alaska
*[[John Tyler Bonner]] (1920–2019), American developmental biologist, expert on slime moulds
*[[Charles Bonnet]] (1720–1793), Genevan naturalist who published work on many subjects, including insects and plants
*[[Aimé Bonpland]] (1773–1858), French explorer and botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Bonpl.</ref> who collected and classified about 6,000 plants unknown in Europe
*[[Jules Bordet]] (1870–1961), Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the complement system in the immune system
*[[Antonina Georgievna Borissova]] (1903–1970), Russian botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Boriss.</ref> who specialized on the flora of the deserts and semi-desert of central Asia
*[[Norman Borlaug]] (1914–2009), American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize, and the father of the Green Revolution
*[[Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc]] (1759–1828), French botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Bosc</ref> invertebrate zoologist, and entomologist, who made a systematic examination of the mushrooms of the southern United States
*[[George Albert Boulenger]] (1858–1937), Belgian and British zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Boulenger</ref> author of 19 monographs on fishes, amphibians, and reptiles
*[[Jules Bourcier]] (1797–1873), French ornithologist, expert on hummingbirds
*[[Paul D. Boyer]] (1918–2018), American biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1997 for studies of ATP synthase

===Br–Bu===
*[[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.