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Bertha Benz
Bertha Benz, born Cäcilie Bertha Ringer, was a German automotive pioneer who in August 1888 made the first long-distance automobile journey, driving her husband Carl Benz's Patent-Motorwagen from Mannheim to Pforzheim without his knowledge.
Bertha Lutz
Bertha Lutz (1894–1976) was a Brazilian biologist and feminist leader who founded the Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino in 1922 and served as a federal deputy from 1936 to 1937.
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner was an Austrian pacifist novelist whose anti-war novel Die Waffen nieder! (1889) made her the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905.
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841–1895), French Impressionist painter and the only woman in the 1874 first Impressionist exhibition at Nadar's studio; married Eugène Manet, painted women and children in pastel color with rapid, unfinished-looking brushwork.
Berthier rifle
The Berthier rifle was a family of French bolt-action rifles and carbines adopted in 1890, chambered for the 8×50mmR Lebel and fed by en bloc clip.
Berthold
Berthold (died 24 July 1198) was a Cistercian abbot of Loccum who became the second bishop of Livonia (1196–1198), organized the first armed crusade to Livonia, and was killed in battle near present-day Riga.
Berthold Göttgens
Berthold Göttgens, born 1966, is Professor of Molecular Haematology at Cambridge and Director of the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, known for single-cell studies of blood stem cells and leukemia.
Berthold Haller
Berthold Haller, also Berchtold Haller (1492 to 1536), was a Protestant reformer who led Bern to the Reformation through preaching, the 1528 Bern Disputation, and the city's reform edict.
Berthold Laufer
Berthold Laufer (1874–1934) was a German-born American anthropologist and sinologist, Curator of Anthropology at Chicago's Field Museum from 1908, whose monographs on jade, Chinese ceramics, and printing remained standard references.
Berti Vogts
Berti Vogts (Hans-Hubert Vogts, born 1946), German defender and manager; 1974 World Cup and 1972 Euro winner with West Germany, Borussia Mönchengladbach 1965-1979, and Germany head coach 1990-1998 who won EURO 1996.
Bertie Ahern
Bertie Ahern (Parthalán Ó hEachthairn, born 1951), Irish Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach 1997–2008, signed the 1998 Good Friday Agreement; resigned in 2008 amid the Mahon tribunal inquiry into his finances and left Fianna Fáil in 2012.
Bertie Carvel
Bertie Carvel (Robert Hugh Carvel), English actor born 1977 in London, RADA-trained, two-time Olivier and Tony Award winner, known for Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical, Rupert Murdoch in Ink, Doctor Foster, Dalgliesh, and The Crown.
Bertil Glader
Bertil Glader is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at Stanford University, known for work on hereditary red blood cell disorders and bone marrow failure.
Bertil Halle
Bertil Halle is a Swedish physical chemist and biophysicist, a professor emeritus at Lund University known for studying water in biological systems and protein dynamics by magnetic relaxation dispersion.
Bertil Hille
Bertil Hille is an American physiologist and biophysicist at the University of Washington whose work established ion channels as gated membrane pores, winning the 1999 Lasker Award.
Bertil Lindblad
Bertil Lindblad (1895–1965) was a Swedish astronomer who in 1926 gave the first substantial evidence that the Milky Way rotates; the Lindblad resonances remain standard tools in galactic dynamics.
Bertil Matérn
Bertil Matérn (1917–2007) was a Swedish mathematical statistician and forester whose 1960 dissertation Spatial Variation laid the mathematical foundation of spatial statistics, giving his name to the Matérn covariance function.
Bertil Nordahl
Bertil Nordahl (Karl Bertil Emanuel Nordahl), Swedish footballer, 1948 Olympic gold center half, brother of Gunnar and Knut Nordahl; 15 caps, Guldbollen 1948, Atalanta professional.
Bertil Ohlin
Bertil Ohlin was a Swedish economist and professor at the Stockholm School of Economics who won the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize for the theory of international trade.
Bertin
Bertin, also Bertinus, was a Columbanian monk trained at Luxeuil who led the monastery of Sithiu at Saint-Omer, France, in the seventh century; the abbey there took his name.
Bertini (software)
Bertini is a software package for numerical algebraic geometry that solves polynomial systems by homotopy continuation, written in C and distributed free of charge by four researchers.
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 1898-1956), German Marxist playwright and director; created epic theater, the Verfremdungseffekt, The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill, and the Berliner Ensemble.
BERTopic
BERTopic is an open-source topic modeling technique introduced by Maarten Grootendorst in 2022 and distributed as a Python library, clustering transformer embeddings into topics without a predefined topic count.
Bertrab Nunatak
Bertrab Nunatak, a c. 500 m rock outcrop southeast of Vahsel Bay, Luitpold Coast, Coats Land, Antarctica; mapped by the German Antarctic Expedition 1911-12 and site of Argentina's Belgrano II station.
Bertram Boltwood
Bertram Boltwood was an American radiochemist and Yale professor, born in 1870, who named the element ionium and developed the lead method of dating rocks, the first reliable way to assign numerical ages to Earth materials.
Bertram Growth Capital
Bertram Growth Capital is the family of growth-equity funds raised by Bertram Capital Management, a Foster City, California private equity firm founded by Jeffrey Drazan in 2006.
Bertram Kostant
Bertram Kostant (1928–2017) was an American mathematician at MIT, a major architect of modern Lie theory who developed the coadjoint orbit method and geometric quantization.
Bertram L. Kasiske
Bertram L. Kasiske, also published as Bertram Kasiske, is an American transplant nephrologist and University of Minnesota professor who directed nephrology at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
Bertram N. Brockhouse
Bertram N. Brockhouse was a Canadian physicist at McMaster University awarded half of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing neutron spectroscopy, including the triple-axis spectrometer.
Bertram Otto Bardenhewer
Bertram Otto Bardenhewer (1851–1935) was a German Catholic priest and professor of New Testament exegesis at Munich, best known as a patrologist, or scholar of the Church Fathers.