All articles starting with B

Bernd Groner

Bernd Groner, born 1946, is a German cancer researcher known for work on Stat5, prolactin signaling, and breast cancer, who directed the Georg Speyer Haus in Frankfurt.

Bernd Jäkel (born 1954, Berlin), German sailor, won Olympic gold in the Soling class at Seoul 1988 for East Germany and Atlanta 1996 for reunified Germany, crewing with Jochen Schümann and Thomas Flach.

Bernd Kannenberg

Bernd Kannenberg (Bernhard Gerhard Kannenberg, 1942-2021), West German race walker; 1972 Munich Olympic 50km gold in 3:56:11.6 and 1972 world record 3:52:45; 1974 European 20km silver; Wilhelm Gustloff survivor.

Oct 20, 2026

Bernd Klingner

Bernd Klingner (born 1940) is a German small-bore rifle shooter who won 50 m three positions gold at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics with a world record 1,157, competing for West Germany in 1960, 1968, and 1972.

Bernd Krauß

Bernd Krauß (born 1953, Plauen) is a German rower, not to be confused with Bernd Krause; he won Olympic gold in the men's eights for East Germany at Moscow 1980 and the 1979 world eights title.

Oct 20, 2026

Bernd Landvoigt

Bernd Landvoigt (born 1951), East German rower, twin brother of Jörg; coxless pair Olympic gold 1976 and 1980, bronze eight 1972, four world titles, 179 wins in 180 races; later DRV coach in Potsdam.

Sep 27, 2026

Bernd Lange

Bernd Lange, born 1955 in Oldenburg, is a German Social Democratic politician who has served in the European Parliament since 2009 and chairs its Committee on International Trade.

Bernd Leno

Bernd Leno, German goalkeeper (born 1992) for Fulham; formerly Bayer Leverkusen and Arsenal, 9 Germany caps as Neuer's deputy; joined Fulham in 2022.

Bernd Nidetzky

Bernd Nidetzky, born 1965 in Trieben, Austria, is an Austrian enzymologist and professor of biotechnology at TU Graz, known for carbohydrate-active enzymes and enzyme biocatalysis.

Bernd Niesecke

Bernd Niesecke (born 1958, Brandenburg an der Havel) is an East German rower, 1988 Seoul Olympic gold medallist and three-time world champion in the men's coxed four; he missed Los Angeles 1984 due to the boycott.

Bernd Nilius

Bernd Nilius, born 1945 in Halle, Germany, is a physiologist long based at KU Leuven in Belgium, known for work on cardiac calcium channels and temperature-sensitive TRP channels.

Bernd Nowack

Bernd Nowack is an environmental scientist who leads the Environmental Risk Assessment and Management Group at Empa in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and models engineered nanomaterials in the environment.

Bernd Olbricht

Bernd Olbricht (born 1956, Gnoien) is an East German flatwater canoeist, double Olympic champion in K-2 500 m (Montreal 1976, with Joachim Mattern) and K-4 1,000 m (Moscow 1980), with four Olympic medals and four world titles.

Bernd R.T. Simoneit

Bernd R.T. Simoneit was a German-born American organic geochemist and Oregon State University professor who developed the biomarker concept and proposed levoglucosan as a tracer of biomass burning.

Bernd Reif

Bernd Reif, born 1968, is a chemist who heads solid-state NMR spectroscopy at the Technical University of Munich and studies membrane proteins and Alzheimer's amyloid fibrils.

Bernd Schnabl

Bernd Schnabl is a German-trained gastroenterologist and Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego since 2008, known for research on the gut–liver axis and bacteriophage therapy for alcoholic liver disease.

Bernd Schuster

Bernd Schuster (born 1959, Augsburg), German midfielder nicknamed the Blond Angel; starred for Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid, won Euro 1980, then coached Real Madrid to the 2008 La Liga title.

Bernd T. Matthias

Bernd T. Matthias (1918–1980) was a German-born solid-state physicist who formulated the Matthias rules and discovered more than 1,000 superconducting materials, more than any other scientist.

Bernd‐Joachim Benecke

Bernd-Joachim Benecke is a molecular biologist working on RNA biology, known for a 1977 Cell paper identifying a new class of small nuclear RNA molecules.

Berne Animal Park

Berne Animal Park (Tierpark Bern, Tierpark Dählhölzli) is Bern's municipal zoo, opened 5 June 1937 in the Dählhölzli forest, funded partly by William Gabus's 150,000-franc legacy, with the free BearPark added in 2009.

Berne Convention

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886), the foundational international copyright treaty administered by WIPO: national treatment, automatic protection, independence of protection, 50-year minimum term, three-step test, 182 members.