Editing List of biologists (section)

===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