Editing List of biologists (section)

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*[[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