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Bartolomé Mitre
Bartolomé Mitre was an Argentine politician, general, and historian who served as president of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and commanded the allied armies against Paraguay.
Bartolomé R. Celli
Bartolomé R. Celli is a Venezuelan-trained pulmonary physician and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, known for the BODE index and co-chairing ATS/ERS COPD guidelines.
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian harpsichord maker at the Medici court in Florence, credited around 1700 with inventing the piano by replacing plucked strings with hammers.
Bartolomeo Gosio
Bartolomeo Gosio (1863–1944) was an Italian physician and microbiologist who showed that fungi convert arsenic into a volatile gas and isolated the first antibiotic crystallized from a mold.
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva is the name of two father-and-son São Paulo bandeirantes nicknamed Anhanguera, meaning "Old Devil"; the son opened the gold region of Goiás from 1722.
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, also written Bartholomew Diaz, was a Portuguese navigator who in 1487–1488 first rounded Africa's southern tip, proving a sea route to India existed.
Barton (remains of)
Barton (remains of), NHLE 1006310, is a scheduled monument in Abingdon on Thames, Oxfordshire: the ruin of the Abbot of Abingdon's mansion at Barton Farm, burnt in 1327, rebuilt by Thomas Reade in 1554, and destroyed in the Civil War.
Barton Court Farm
Barton Court Farm, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: multiperiod archaeological site with a 1st-century BC Iron Age enclosure, a 3rd-4th century Roman villa in a 125m x 145m compound, and an Anglo-Saxon settlement of grubenhauser, occupied into the 5th century.
Barton Cylinder
The Barton Cylinder is a clay cylinder from Nippur, Iraq, inscribed with a unique Sumerian cosmogonic narrative, dated to about 2500 to 2340 BC and held in the Penn Museum.
Barton decarboxylation
The Barton decarboxylation, also called Barton's radical decarboxylation, is a radical reaction reported in 1983 that removes a carboxyl group, converting a carboxylic acid into the corresponding alkane.
Barton F. Haynes
Barton F. Haynes is an American immunologist and virologist at Duke University who founded the Duke Human Vaccine Institute in 1990 and led the RV144 HIV vaccine trial analysis.
Barton Farm
Barton Farm, a Roman winged-corridor villa near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, findspot of the Orpheus Mosaic now in the Corinium Museum; distinct from Barton in Fabis villa and Barton Farm Winchester.
Barton Fink
Barton Fink (1991) is the Coen brothers' black comedy about a 1941 New York playwright, played by John Turturro, who suffers writer's block writing wrestling pictures in Hollywood. It won the Palme d'Or, Best Director, and Best Actor at Cannes, the festival's first triple-award film.
Barton Fitzpatrick
Barton Fitzpatrick, also Barton Fitzpatrick of The Chi, is an American actor, producer, and singer born 1995 in Chicago; known for Reg Taylor on Showtime's The Chi and Blaxton in Power Book IV: Force, a role written for him.
Barton Jahncke
Barton Jahncke, full name Barton Williams Benedict Jahncke, was an American sailor from New Orleans who won a Dragon class gold medal at the 1968 Olympics.
Barton reaction
The Barton reaction is a photochemical organic reaction, introduced by Derek H. R. Barton, in which photolysis of a nitrite ester converts a remote carbon–hydrogen bond into a functionalized group.
Barton Springs salamander
The Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) is a small, fully aquatic, neotenic salamander found at Barton Springs in Austin, Texas, and federally listed as endangered in 1997.
Barton Swing Aqueduct
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a movable navigable aqueduct in Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester, carrying the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal, opened in 1894.
Barton-in-Fabis
Barton-in-Fabis is a small Rushcliffe village in Nottinghamshire on the River Trent, six miles from Nottingham; Latin name means "in the beans"; features Grade I St George's church, a scheduled Roman villa, and a contested 2024 quarry application.
Barton–McCombie deoxygenation
The Barton–McCombie deoxygenation, also known as the Barton–McCombie reaction, converts an alcohol into a hydrocarbon via a free-radical chain reaction; Barton and McCombie reported it in 1975.
Barton's Bush
Barton's Bush, Trentham Memorial Park, Upper Hutt, New Zealand: the largest remaining lowland podocarp/broadleaf forest remnant on the Hutt Valley floor, named after settler Richard Barton, bought as a public reserve in 1950, tawa-dominated with threatened mistletoes.
Bartonella
Bartonella: genus of fastidious Gram-negative hemotropic bacteria (B. henselae, B. quintana, B. bacilliformis) transmitted by fleas, body lice, and sand flies, causing cat scratch disease, trench fever, Carrion's disease, and culture-negative endocarditis.
Bartonella bacilliformis infection
Bartonella bacilliformis infection, or Carrion's disease / South American bartonellosis, is a sand fly-transmitted biphasic illness in the Andes: acute Oroya fever with severe anemia (untreated fatality over 80% in outbreaks) and chronic verruga peruana, treated with antibiotics.
Bartonian
The Bartonian is a geologic stage and age of the middle Eocene epoch, spanning 41.03 to 37.71 million years ago and named after Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, England.
Bartosz A. Grzybowski
Bartosz A. Grzybowski (born 1972, Gdynia, Poland) is a Polish chemist and Distinguished Professor at UNIST in South Korea, known for the Chematica synthesis planner, commercialized as Synthia.
Bartosz Zmarzlik
Bartosz Zmarzlik (born 1995, Szczecin) is a Polish speedway rider with six FIM Speedway Grand Prix world titles (2019, 2020, 2022-2025), the only rider with four consecutive crowns, equal to Mauger and Rickardsson.
Bartow Elmore
Bartow J. Elmore is an American environmental historian at Ohio State University, known for Citizen Coke (2015) and Seed Money (2021) and winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize.
Bartramia
Bartramia names two valid genera: a monotypic bird genus (Lesson, 1831) holding the Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda, and a moss genus (Hedw.) of about thirty Bartramiaceae species; the two are parahomonyms across kingdoms.
Bartsocas-Papas syndrome
Bartsocas-Papas syndrome, also known as lethal popliteal pterygium syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder marked by severe knee webbing, fused eyelids, facial clefts, and genital anomalies, often lethal prenatally or in infancy.
Bartter syndrome
Bartter syndrome, a rare inherited salt-losing kidney tubulopathy of the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop, causing hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis, hyperreninemic hyperaldosteronism, polyuria, and growth retardation; types 1-5 from SLC12A1, KCNJ1, CLCNKB, BSND/CLCNKA-CLCNKB, and MAGED2 mutations; treated with indomethacin and electrolyte supplements.