Eponyms: B
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| Babcock test | Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843-1931), American agricultural chemist |
| bacchanalia | Bacchus, Roman name of the Greek god of wine, Dionysus |
| bacitracin | Margaret Tracy (c.1936-), name of the child in whose tissues this was found |
| Baedeker | Karl Baedeker (1801-59), German printer |
| Baffin Bay/Island | William Baffin (c.1584-1622), English navigator |
| Bailey bridge | Sir Donald Bailey (1901-85), English engineer |
| Bakelite | Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944), American chemist |
| banksia | Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), British botanist and scientist |
| banting | William Banting (1797-1878), English undertaker |
| Bartter’s Syndrome | Frederic Crosby Bartter (1914-83), American physician |
| Bartlett pear | Enoch Bartlett (1779-1860), American merchant |
| Baskerville type | John Baskerville (1706-75), English printer |
| baud | Jean M. E. Baudot (1845-1903), French inventor |
| Baumé scale | Antoine Baumé (1728-1804), French chemist |
| Beaufort scale | Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), English surveyor and navy admiral |
| béchamel sauce | Marquis Louis de Béchamel (d.1703), steward of Louis XIV of France |
| becquerel | Antoine-Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), French physicist |
| Beef Stroganoff | Count Pavel Alexandrovich Stroganoff (1772-1817), Russian diplomat |
| begonia | Michel Bégon (1638-1710), French patron saint of science |
| bel | Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born American scientist |
| Belisha beacon | 1st Baron (Isaac) Leslie Hore-Belisha (1893-1957), British politician |
| Bell’s Palsy | Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), Scottish anatomist, surgeon and physiologist |
| Benedictine | St Benedict (c.480-c.547), French monk |
| Beranek scale | Leo R. Beranek (b. 1914), American acoustical engineer |
| Bessemer process | Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98), British engineer |
| bignonia | Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743), French court librarian |
| bigot | Nathaniel Bigot (1575-1660), English Puritan teacher |
| Binet-Simon scale | Alfred Binet (1857-1911) and Théodore Simon (1873-1961), French psychologists |
| biotite | Jean Baptiste Biot (1774-1862), French physicist |
| Biro | László Jozsef Biró (1900-85), Hungarian inventor |
| Black Maria | Maria Lee, early 19th century American boarding-house keeper |
| bluetooth | Harald Blatand (translated as ‘Bluetooth’ in English) (c. 910-987), Viking king |
| blimp | Colonel Blimp, cartoon character by Sir David Low (1891-1963), New Zealand cartoonist |
| blondel | André Eugène Blondel (1863-1938), French physicist |
| Bloody Mary | Queen Mary I of England (1516-58) |
| bloomers | Amelia Jenkins Bloomer (1818-94), American feminist |
| blurb | Miss Belinda Blurb, picture by Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), American humorist and illustrator |
| Bo Diddley beat | Bo Diddley (born Ellas Bates; 1928), American musician |
| bobby | Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), British statesman and founder of London police force |
| boffin | Mr Boffin, character in the novel Our Mutual Friend (1864-5), by Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist |
| Bohr magneton | Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962), Danish physicist |
| Bolivia | Simón Bolívar (1783-1830), South American soldier and statesman |
| Boolean logic | George Boole (1815-64), English mathematician |
| bougainvillaea | Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811), French explorer |
| bowdlerise | Thomas Bowdler (1734-1825), British doctor |
| bowie knife | James Bowie (1799-1836), American soldier and adventurer |
| boycott | Charles C. Boycott (1832-1897), Irish land agent |
| Boyle’s law | Robert Boyle (1627-91), British physicist and chemist |
| boysenberry | Rudolph Boysen (d.1950), American botanist |
| braggadocio | Braggadocchio, character in the poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (c.1552-99), English poet |
| Braille | Louis Braille (1809-52), French teacher, writer and musician |
| Bramley apple | Matthew Bramley, 19th century English butcher |
| brewster | Sir David Brewster (1781-1868), Scottish physicist |
| Brix scale | Adolf F. W. Brix (d. 1870), Austrian scientist |
| Broca’s Aphasia | Pierre Paul Broca (1824-80), French pathologist, neurosurgeon and anthropologist |
| bromeliad | Olaf Bromelius (1639-1705), Swedish botanist |
| brougham | Lord Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1868), British statesman |
| Browning rifle | John Moses Browning (1834-1926), American firearm designer |
| Bubnoff unit | Serge von Bubnoff (1888-1957), Russian geologist |
| Buddhism; Buddhist | Buddha, title taken by Prince Gautama Siddharta (c.563-c.483BC), Hindu religious teacher |
| buddleia | Adam Buddle (c.1660-1715), English rector and botanist |
| buhlwork | A. C. Boule (1642-1732), French cabinet-maker |
| bunkum, bunk | Buncombe County, N Carolina, USA, named after Colonel Edward Buncombe, 19th century Revolutionary War hero |
| Bunsen burner | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-99), German chemist |
| Buridan’s ass | Jean Buridan (c.1295-1356), French philosopher |
| burke | William Burke, 19th century Irish smotherer |
| Burkitt’s Lymphoma | Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911-93), British surgeon |
| Burnham scale | Harry Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham (1862-1933), English statesman |
| busby | Dr Richard Busby (1606-95), English headmaster |
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
~ Master Yoda
~ Master Yoda
