Editing List of biologists (section)

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*[[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