All articles starting with B

Bernard Montgomery

Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), British field marshal; Eighth Army commander at El Alamein 1942, Allied ground forces commander in Normandy 1944, and NATO's first DSACEUR 1951-1958.

Sep 20, 2026

Bernard Moss

Bernard Moss is an American virologist and NIH Distinguished Investigator at NIAID who joined in 1966, pioneered vaccinia virus vectors for vaccines, and codiscovered mRNA capping.

Sep 20, 2026

Bernard N. Fields

Bernard N. Fields (1938–1995) was an American physician and virologist who built reovirus infection of mice into a model for how viral genes determine disease, and edited Fields Virology.

Bernard Nordlinger

Bernard Nordlinger is a French surgeon and professor who directed digestive surgery at Hôpital Ambroise Paré and led the EORTC 40983 trial of perioperative FOLFOX4 chemotherapy for colorectal liver metastases.

Bernard O. Phinney

Bernard O. Phinney was an American plant biologist at UCLA who worked out how plants make gibberellin and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 1985.

Bernard O'Dowd

Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (1866–1953) was an Australian radical poet and parliamentary draughtsman, best known for the long poem The Bush (1912) and the sonnet 'Australia'.

Bernard O'Reilly

Bernard O'Reilly (1820–1907) was an Irish-born Roman Catholic priest, historian, and devotional author who emigrated to Canada and the United States, best known for The Mirror of True Womanhood (1876).

Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, also known as Saint Bernard de Clairvaux, was a Burgundian monk and abbot of Clairvaux from 1115, a leading figure of the twelfth-century Church.

Bernard P. Binks

Bernard P. Binks is a British physical chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull, known for particle-stabilized emulsions, surfactant-free foams, and materials like dry water and liquid marbles.

Bernard Pagel

Bernard Ephraim Julius Pagel (1930–2007) was a British astronomer and leading authority on chemical abundances, a pioneer of simple analytic models of galaxy chemical evolution.

Bernard Palissy

Bernard Palissy (c. 1510–1590) was a French Huguenot ceramicist, naturalist, and writer, inventor of the lead-glazed "rustiques figulines" and creator of Catherine de' Medici's destroyed Tuileries grotto.

Bernard Peters

Bernard Peters, born Bernhard Pietrokowski, was a Polish-born, German-raised physicist who established heavy atomic nuclei in primary cosmic radiation and earned his doctorate under Oppenheimer at Berkeley in 1942.

Oct 22, 2026

Bernard Plossu

Bernard Plossu is a French photographer, born in 1945 in Dalat, Vietnam, known for travel reportage made with a 50 mm lens in black and white and Fresson-process color.

Bernard Prendergast

Bernard Prendergast is a cardiologist specializing in valvular heart disease and structural intervention, Chair of Cardiology at Cleveland Clinic London and a consultant at St Thomas' Hospital.

Bernard Pullman

Bernard Pullman (1919–1996) was a French theoretical biochemist and quantum chemist who, with his wife and collaborator Alberte Pullman, applied quantum mechanics to the molecules of life and helped found quantum biochemistry.

Bernard Purdie

Bernard "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939 or 1942, Elkton, Maryland) is an American session drummer who played with Aretha Franklin, James Brown, and Steely Dan, and created the Purdie shuffle half-time groove.

Sep 27, 2026

Bernard Quintin

Bernard Quintin is a Belgian politician of the liberal MR party who serves as federal Minister of Security and the Interior, in charge of Beliris, and is a former diplomat.

Oct 21, 2026

Bernard Redwood

Bernard Boverton Redwood (1874–1911), British motorboat racer, won two Olympic gold medals at London 1908 in the B-Class and C-Class events aboard Gyrinus, bailing water alongside John Field-Richards; motorboating was never an Olympic sport again.

Sep 20, 2026

Bernard Roizman

Bernard Roizman (1929–2026) was a Romanian-born American virologist who spent 52 years at the University of Chicago, mapping the herpes simplex virus genome and founding molecular epidemiology.

Bernard S. Meyerson

Bernard S. Meyerson is an American solid-state physicist who invented UHV/CVD, the process that made silicon-germanium chips commercial, during more than 30 years at IBM.

Bernard Sadoulet

Bernard Sadoulet is a French-trained particle physicist at UC Berkeley, best known as a pioneer of direct dark-matter detection through cryogenic detectors and the CDMS experiment.

Oct 20, 2026

Bernard Schmetz

Bernard Schmetz (1904-1966), French épée fencer, Olympic team gold 1932, silver 1928, bronze 1936; 1937 world individual épée champion with nine World Championship medals.

Bernard Shaw (journalist)

Bernard Shaw was an American broadcast journalist and CNN's first chief anchor. He is known for covering the 1991 Gulf War from Baghdad and moderating the first African American presidential debate.

Bernard Sumner

Bernard Sumner, born 1956 in Salford, is a British singer, guitarist and producer who co-founded Joy Division, fronted New Order after Ian Curtis's death, formed Electronic with Johnny Marr, and built the band's early sequencers.

Oct 22, 2026

Bernard Takawira

Bernard Takawira (1948–1997) was a Zimbabwean stone sculptor from Nyanga, younger brother of John Takawira, and a leading first-generation figure of Zimbabwe's stone sculpture movement, winning Zimbabwe Heritage in 1988.

Bernard Tapie

Bernard Tapie (1943–2021) was a French businessman, football club owner, and politician who built a fortune buying distressed companies, and was later involved in the Adidas arbitration affair.

Bernard Tellegen

Bernard Tellegen was a Dutch electrical engineer at Philips who invented the pentode radio valve in 1926, defined the gyrator in 1948, and gave his name to a network theorem.

Bernard Thorens

Bernard Thorens, born in Geneva in 1955, is a Swiss professor at the University of Lausanne known for cloning GLUT2 and the GLP-1 receptor, a type 2 diabetes drug target.