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- BaarnBaarn (Dutch pronunciation: ) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, near Hilver
- Baháʼí Faith and gender equalityReligion
- BaixingBaixing (Chinese: 百姓; pinyin: bǎixìng; lit. 'hundred surnames') or lao baixing (Chinese: 老
- Balgis Osman-ElashaSudanese climate scientist awarded Champion of the Earth in 2008
- BalkenkreuzThe Balkenkreuz (lit. 'beam cross' or 'bar cross') is a straight-armed cross that was firs
- Ballistic Research LaboratoryDefunct research facility of the United States Army
- Baly MedalThe Baly Medal is a biennial award awarded by the Royal College of Physicians of London.
- Balzan PrizeThe International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or
- Banū Mūsā brothers9th-century Persian scholars
- Bar inductionBar induction is a reasoning principle used in intuitionistic mathematics, introduced by L
- Barbara BlockAmerican marine biologist
- Barbara C. WallaceAmerican psychologist
- Barbara CassinFrench philologist and philosopher
- Barbara Crawford JohnsonAmerican engineer
- Barbara IglewskiAmerican microbiologist (1938–2023)
- Barbara Illingworth BrownBarbara Illingworth Brown was an American biochemist. She worked primarily at Washington U
- Barbara JusticeAmerican oncologist
- Barbara KwastBritish epidemiologist and midwife
- Barbara LiskovAmerican computer scientist
- Barbara MitcalfeNew Zealand botanist and conservationist (1928–2017)
- Barbara PaulsonAmerican human computer at NASA (1928–2023)
- Barbara PearseBarbara Mary Frances Pearse FRS (born 24 March 1948, Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, England)
- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of LodsworthBritish economist; life peer
- Barbara WoldProfessor of Molecular Biology
- Baron RayleighBaron Rayleigh, of Terling Place in the County of Essex, is a title in the Peerage of the
- Barrett TechnologyNewton, Massachusetts, USA-based Barrett Technology was incorporated by William T. Townsen
- Barry BarishAmerican physicist and Nobel Laureate (born 1936)
- Barry MarshallAustralian physician (born 1951)
- Basildon, BerkshireBasildon is a civil parish in the English county of Berkshire. It comprises the small vill
- BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge AwardInternational award programme
- Beate HermelinGerman-born experimental psychologist
- Beatrice AitchisonAmerican mathematician
- Beatrice BlackwoodBritish anthropologist
- Beatrice HahnAmerican biologist
- Beatrice WillardAmerican botanist (1925–2003)
- Beatrice WorsleyFirst female computer scientist in Canada
- Beatrix Tugendhut GardnerAustrian-American psychologist (1933–1995)
- Beatriz BarbuyBrazilian astronomer (born 1950)
- Beaufort WestBeaufort West (Afrikaans: Beaufort-Wes; Xhosa: eBhobhofolo) is a town in the Western Cape
- Beckman Institute at CaltechThe Beckman Institute at Caltech is a multi-disciplinary center for research in the chemic
- Beckman Laser InstituteThe Beckman Laser Institute (sometimes called the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clin
- Belle ReynoldsAmerican Civil War nurse
- Ben CarsonAmerican neurosurgeon and government official (born 1951)
- Ben Green (mathematician)Ben Joseph Green FRS (born 27 February 1977) is a British mathematician, specialising in c
- Ben Roy MottelsonAmerican-Danish nuclear physicist (1926–2022)
- Benevolent dictator for lifeTitle given to a small number of open-source software development leaders
- Beniamino SegreBeniamino Segre (16 February 1903 – 2 October 1977) was an Italian mathematician who is re
- Benjamin BannekerAmerican scientist, surveyor and farmer (1731–1806)
- Benjamin HoltAmerican inventor
- Benjamin SillimanAmerican chemist and science educator (1779–1864)
- Benjamin Silliman Jr.Benjamin Silliman Jr. (December 4, 1816 – January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry a
- Benjamin SpockAmerican pediatrician, political activist, and writer (1903–1998)
- Bennet OmaluNigerian-American forensic pathologist and neuropathologist
- Beppo LeviBeppo Levi (14 May 1875 – 28 August 1961) was an Italian mathematician. He published high-
- Berlekamp switching gameThe Berlekamp switching game is a mathematical game proposed by American mathematician Elw
- Berlekamp–Welch algorithmThe Berlekamp–Welch algorithm, also known as the Welch–Berlekamp algorithm, is named for E
- Bernard BolzanoBohemian polymath (1781–1848)
- Bernard Ogilvie DodgeBernard Ogilvie Dodge (18 April 1872 – 9 August 1960) was an American botanist and pioneer
- Bernard PeyrilheFrench surgeon
- Bernard ShiffmanBernard Shiffman (born 23 June 1942) is an American mathematician, specializing in complex
- Bernard T. FeldBernard Taub Feld (December 21, 1919 – February 19, 1993) was a professor of physics at th
- Bernardino RamazziniItalian physician (1633–1714)
- Bernoulli familySwiss patrician family
- Bertha Chapman CadyEntomologist and science educator
- Bertha Parker PallanAmerican archaeologist
- Bertha Van HoosenAmerican physician
- Bertram BrockhouseCanadian physicist, Nobel laureate (1918–2003)
- Berwick PrizeThe Berwick Prize and Senior Berwick Prize are two prizes of the London Mathematical Socie
- Beth Levine (physician)American microbiologist (1960–2020)
- Betsy BangBiologist, illustrator and translator
- Bette KorberAmerican computational biologist
- Betty FlintNew Zealand scientist
- Betty HayCell biologist and Developmental biologist
- Betty HolbertonAmerican computer scientist (1917–2001)
- Beyond Bias and Barriers2006 report from the US National Academy of Sciences
- Bhāskara IIndian mathematician and astronomer (600–680)
- Bhāskara IIIndian mathematician and astronomer (1114–1185)
- Bhaskara's lemmaBhaskara's Lemma is an identity used as a lemma during the chakravala method. It states th
- Bi (surname)Bi (traditional Chinese: 畢; simplified Chinese: 毕; pinyin: Bì; Wade–Giles: Pi) is a Chines
- Bi ShengChinese inventor of moveable type (972–1051)
- Biblioteca europea di informazione e culturaThe Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC, "European library of information a
- Big Bend sliderThe Big Bend slider (Trachemys gaigeae), also called commonly the Mexican Plateau slider a
- Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean SciencesBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, founded in 1974, is an independent, non-profit ocea
- Bill ClintonPresident of the United States from 1993 to 2001
- Bill HewlettAmerican engineer (1913–2001)
- Bill MollisonAustralian scientist (1928–2016)
- Biophysical SocietyThe Biophysical Society is an international scientific society whose purpose is to lead th
- Biotechnology Heritage AwardThe Biotechnology Heritage Award recognizes individuals who have made significant contribu
- Birth nameA birth name is the name of a person given when they are born. The term may be applied to
- Biruté GaldikasCanadian primatologist and conservationist (1946–2026)
- Bjarne StroustrupDanish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
- Black in AIBlack in AI, formally called the Black in AI Workshop, is a technology research organizati
- Blanche Evans DeanNaturalist, conservationist and author (1892–1974)
- Blayne HeckelBlayne Ryan Heckel (born March 20, 1953) is an American experimental physicist whose resea
- Blood (journal)Blood is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Society of Hematology.
- Blood–gas partition coefficientBlood–gas partition coefficient, also known as Ostwald coefficient for blood–gas, is a ter
- Board of LongitudeThe Commissioners for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, or more popularly Board of Lo
- Bob FrankstonRobert M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949) is an American software engineer and businessman
- Boerdijk–Coxeter helixThe Boerdijk–Coxeter helix, named after H. S. M. Coxeter and Arie Hendrick Boerdijk, is a
- Bohuslava KeckováCzech medical doctor
- Bolyai (crater)Bolyai is an old lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far
- Bonnie BasslerAmerican molecular biologist (born 1962)
- Bonnie WebberBonnie Lynn Nash-Webber (born August 30, 1946) is a computational linguist. She is an hono
- Boris MagasanikBoris Magasanik (December 19, 1919 – December 25, 2013) was a microbiologist and biochemis
- Borna Nyaoke-AnokeKenyan physician and medical researcher
- BorsdorfBorsdorf is a municipality in the Leipzig district in Saxony, Germany.
- Bose InstituteResearch institution in Kolkata, India
- Bourn Hall ClinicBourn Hall Clinic in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England, is a centre for the treatment of infe
- Box–Cox distributionIn statistics, the Box–Cox distribution (also known as the power-normal distribution) is t
- Bram CohenAmerican programmer and author of the BitTorrent protocol
- Bram MoolenaarDutch computer programmer (1961–2023)
- Breakthrough PrizeThe Breakthrough Prizes are a set of international awards bestowed in three categories by
- Brenda AndrewsCanadian biologist
- Brenda FitzgeraldAmerican obstetrician-gynecologist
- Brenda L. BassProfessor of Biochemistry
- Brenda MilnerBritish-Canadian neuroscientist and neuropsychologist (born 1918)
- Brendan EichAmerican programmer and tech executive (born 1961)
- Brhat TrayiThree Sanskrit encyclopaedias of medicine
- Brian Cox (physicist)English physicist and musician (born 1968)
- Brian JosephsonBritish physicist (born 1940)
- Brian SchmidtAmerican-born Australian astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate
- Brian StoltzBrian M. Stoltz is currently a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Techn
- Brigitta StockingerBrigitta Stockinger is a molecular immunologist in the Francis Crick Institute in London.
- Brigitte KiefferFrench neurobiologist
- Brigitte MühlenbruchGerman chemist (born 1936)
- Brigitte PlateauFrench computer scientist
- British Antarctic SurveyPolar research organisation
- British Doctors StudyThe British Doctors' Study was a prospective cohort study which ran from 1951 to 2001, and
- Brittany FriedmanAmerican sociologist
- Brook TaylorEnglish mathematician
- Bruce ElmegreenBruce Gordon Elmegreen (born 24 February 1950) is an American astronomer.
- Bruce H. LipshutzBruce H. Lipshutz (born 1951) is an American chemist. He is a professor at the University
- Bruce Wallace (geneticist)Bruce Wallace (1920 – January 12, 2015) was an American scientist. He was University Disti
- Bruno RossiItalian-American experimental physicist (1905–1993)
- Bryan AppleyardBryan Appleyard CBE (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.
- Büchner flaskA Büchner flask, also known as a vacuum flask, filter flask, suction flask, side-arm flask
- Burg im LeimentalBurg im Leimental is a municipality in the district of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Count
- Burgh HouseBurgh House is a historic house located on New End Square in Hampstead, London, that inclu
- Burton RichterAmerican physicist
- Butebo DistrictButebo District is a district in the Eastern Region of Uganda. Like most other Ugandan dis