edgepedia

All articles starting with B

27,400 articles

BeatPark trial

BeatPark trial: Montpellier clinical trials (NCT02438124, NCT02647242, NCT04543058) of BeatPark, a wearable device delivering music synchronized in real time to gait cadence via ankle sensors for gait rehabilitation in Parkinson's disease.

Beatrice Alda

Beatrice Alda (born 1961, New York City), daughter of Alan Alda and Arlene Alda, is an American actress, producer, and director known for Lisa Callan in The Four Seasons (1981) and directing Out Late (2008).

Beatrice Borromeo

Beatrice Borromeo (Beatrice dei Principi Borromeo Arese Taverna), born 1985 in San Candido, is an Italian journalist and documentary director, wife of Pierre Casiraghi, known for the Netflix docuseries Il Principe and for Il Fatto Quotidiano reporting.

Beatrice Cenci (1969 film)

Beatrice Cenci (1969), aka The Conspiracy of Torture, is Lucio Fulci's Italian historical drama on the 1599 Cenci murder, starring Adrienne La Russa, Georges Wilson, and Tomas Milian; censored with an 18-year ban, distinct from Freda's 1956 film.

Beatrice Chebet

Beatrice Chebet, born in 2000, is a Kenyan long-distance runner holding the 5,000 m, 10,000 m, and 5 km road world records, and the first Kenyan to win an Olympic distance double.

Béatrice Dalle

Béatrice Dalle (born Béatrice Cabarrou, 1964) is a French actress, born in Brest, discovered by Dominique Besnehard for Betty in 37°2 le matin (Betty Blue, 1986); known for Claire Denis, Jarmusch, Ferrara collaborations, and À l'intérieur.

Beatrice Edwige

Béatrice Edwige (Béatrice Seynabou Edwige), born 1988, French pivot and defensive specialist; Olympic gold 2020, silver 2016, world champion 2017, European champion 2018; first Guianese Olympic handball player; retired 2025.

Beatrice Egli

Beatrice Egli, born in 1988 in Lachen, Switzerland, is a schlager singer who won the tenth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar in 2013 and has topped German and Swiss charts since.

Beatrice Fossa

Beatrice Fossa is a 382-km-long IAU-named trough (fossa) on Pluto near the equator at 0.19N, 129.26E, approved February 3, 2021 and named for Dante's Beatrice; part of the Sputnik-Radial fault system with Virgil Fossae.

Beatrice H. Hahn

Beatrice H. Hahn is an American virologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for tracing HIV-1 to chimpanzees and the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to gorillas.

Beatrice Lillie

Beatrice Lillie (Bea Lillie, Lady Peel, 1894–1989), Canadian-born comedienne billed as "the funniest woman in the world", star of London and Broadway revue, An Evening with Beatrice Lillie, and the film Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Beatrice Mintz

Beatrice Mintz (1921–2022), American developmental geneticist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, creator of allophenic (chimeric) mice, pioneer of transgenic mice, and founder of the clonal theory linking development and cancer.

Beatrice of Naples

Beatrice of Naples (Beatrice d'Aragona) was an Aragonese princess who was queen of Hungary from 1476 as the wife of Matthias Corvinus, and brought Italian Renaissance taste to Buda.

Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm

Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm is a 588 MW offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland, with 84 Siemens Gamesa turbines, fully operational since June 2019.

Beatrice Portinari

Beatrice Portinari (Bice, 1266–1290), Florentine daughter of Folco Portinari and wife of Simone de' Bardi, identified through Boccaccio and Pietro Alighieri as Dante's beloved and the guide of the Divine Comedy.

Béatrice Secretan

Béatrice Secretan, also known as Béatrice Lauby-Secretan, is a Swiss cancer epidemiologist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, leading the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention since 2014.

Beatrice Straight

Beatrice Straight (Beatrice Whitney Straight, 1914–2001), American stage and screen actress; Oscar winner as Louise Schumacher in Network (1976) for the briefest Oscar-winning performance, and Tony winner for The Crucible (1953).

Beatrice Vio

Beatrice Vio, known as Bebe Vio, is an Italian wheelchair fencer who won Paralympic foil gold at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 despite losing all four limbs.

Beatrice Warde

Beatrice Warde (1900–1969) was an American typographer and historian of printing, known for the essay "The Crystal Goblet" and the broadside "This Is a Printing Office."

Beatrice Welles

Beatrice Welles (Beatrice Giuditta Welles, Beatrice Mori di Gerfalco Welles), born 1955, daughter of Orson Welles and Countess Paola Mori; child actress in Chimes at Midnight and manager of her father's estate and restorations.

Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), American artist and studio potter called the Mama of Dada; New York Dada journal The Blind Man founder, later famed in Ojai, California for iridescent in-glaze luster earthenware.

Beatrice, NE Micro Area

Beatrice, NE Micro Area (CBSA 13100) is a micropolitan statistical area covering Gage County, Nebraska, around the city of Beatrice; 21,704 people at the 2020 Census, 851.5 square miles, principal city Beatrice.

Beatrijs

Beatrijs is a 13th-century Middle Dutch rhymed poem, about 1,038 lines, telling how a nun who leaves her convent for love is forgiven through the Virgin Mary.

Beatrix Hamburg

Beatrix Hamburg, known as Betty Hamburg, was an American child and adolescent psychiatrist who pioneered youth peer counseling and was the first black woman to graduate from Yale School of Medicine.

Beatrix of the Netherlands

Beatrix (born 1938, eldest daughter of Juliana and Prince Bernhard) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until abdicating 30 April 2013 in favor of her son King Willem-Alexander; married German diplomat Claus von Amsberg in 1966.

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), British author-illustrator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit and 23 Tales selling over 250 million copies; also mycologist, Herdwick sheep farmer, and National Trust benefactor who left over 4,000 Lake District acres.

Beatriz Adriana

Beatriz Adriana, stage name of Beatriz Adriana Flores de Saracho, is a Mexican ranchera singer born in 1958 in Navojoa, Sonora, who won the First Festival of Ranchera Song in 1982.

Beatriz at Dinner

Beatriz at Dinner: 2017 comedy-drama by Miguel Arteta, written by Mike White, starring Salma Hayek and John Lithgow; a stranded healer clashes with a billionaire developer at a dinner party; 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, $7.1M US gross.

Beatriz Flamini

Beatriz Flamini, born circa 1972, is a Spanish extreme athlete, mountaineer, and climber from Madrid who spent just over 500 days alone in a cave near Motril, Granada.

Beatriz Guido

Beatriz Guido (1922–1988) was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose political novels made her one of Argentina's most widely read writers of the 1950s to 1970s.