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Bjørn R. Olsen
Bjørn R. Olsen, born in Norway in 1940, is Hersey Professor of Cell Biology, Emeritus at Harvard, whose laboratory discovered new collagen families and mutations causing inherited cartilage, bone, and vascular disorders.
Björn Savén
Björn Savén is a Swedish private equity investor who founded Industri Kapital, now IK Partners, the firm behind the first private equity fund to target the Nordic market.
Björn Schumacher
Björn Schumacher is a German molecular biologist who studies how DNA damage drives aging, directing the Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease at the University of Cologne.
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens, born 1966 in Augsburg, is an American-trained climate scientist directing the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, known for research on clouds and the DYAMOND project.
Björn Ulvaeus
Björn Ulvaeus is a Swedish songwriter, guitarist, singer, and producer, best known for being a core member of ABBA and co-writing most of the group's songs with Benny Andersson.
Bjorn Vaagensmith
Bjorn Vaagensmith is a power systems researcher at Idaho National Laboratory who won the 2025 PECASE for perovskite solar cell research and now leads a DOE project on seismic resilience of power transformers.
Björn Vennström
Björn Vennström (1948–2024) was a Swedish molecular biologist and Karolinska Institutet professor who identified the oncogenes erbA and erbB and showed c-erb-A is a thyroid hormone receptor.
Björn von Siemens
Björn von Siemens is a German medtech entrepreneur and direct descendant of Werner von Siemens who co-founded Caresyntax, a surgical data and analytics platform company, in 2013.
Bjørnar Selnes Skjæran
Bjørnar Selnes Skjæran is a Norwegian Labour Party politician who became Minister of Local Government and Regional Development in September 2025, succeeding Kjersti Stenseng, and works on housing construction and northern Norway policy.
Bjornson (Mercurian crater)
Bjornson is an IAU-approved 88 km impact crater on Mercury at 73.1°N, 109.2°W, named in 1985 for Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Norwegian poet and dramatist (1832–1910).
Bjørnsonstipendet
Bjørnsonstipendet is a Norwegian grant for early-career writers, awarded since 1997 by the Norwegian Booksellers' Association at the Bjørnson Festival in Molde, with recipients including Karl Ove Knausgård.
Björnstad syndrome
Björnstad syndrome (OMIM 262000, Crandall syndrome) is a rare autosomal recessive BCS1L mitochondrial disorder causing congenital sensorineural hearing loss and pili torti, with fewer than fifty reported cases.
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer, poet, and playwright who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote the lyrics of Norway's national anthem.
Bjugn
Bjugn (Bjugn kommune) was a Norwegian municipality on the Fosen peninsula in Trøndelag, founded 1853 from Ørland, merged into Ørland municipality 1 January 2020; 4,904 inhabitants in 2019, center Botngård.
BK Häcken
BK Häcken (Bollklubben Häcken), football club founded 2 August 1940 on Hisingen, Gothenburg; men won Allsvenskan 2022 and Svenska Cupen 2016, 2019, 2023, 2025; women won Damallsvenskan 2025 and the inaugural UEFA Women's Europa Cup 2026.
BK virus
BK virus (BK polyomavirus, BKPyV), human polyomavirus isolated in 1971 from a renal transplant patient's urine; persists in kidneys, causes nephropathy and hemorrhagic cystitis under immunosuppression, managed by reducing immunosuppression.
BKL singularity
The BKL singularity, or Belinski–Khalatnikov–Lifshitz singularity, is a conjectured generic spacelike singularity of general relativity, proposed in 1970, where geometry oscillates chaotically through endless Kasner epochs.
BKV Corporation
BKV Corporation is a Denver-headquartered, NYSE-listed natural gas producer focused on the Barnett Shale of Texas, founded in 2015 as a subsidiary of Thailand's Banpu.
BL 5.5-inch medium gun
The BL 5.5-inch medium gun was a British breech-loading medium artillery piece of the Second World War, entering service in 1941 and remaining in use into the 1980s.
BL 9.2-inch howitzer
The BL 9.2-inch howitzer was a heavy siege howitzer used by the British Army for counter-battery fire in the First World War, introduced in 1914.
BL Lacertae
BL Lacertae (BL Lac) is the prototype blazar, an active galactic nucleus whose jet points almost at Earth. It was mistaken for a variable star when found in 1929.
BL Lacertae object
A BL Lacertae object (BL Lac, or BLL) is an active galactic nucleus with weak or no emission lines, one of the two blazar classes, named after BL Lacertae.
BL-2
BL-2 (BL2, IARC-BL2, CVCL_1966, DSMZ ACC 625) is an EBV-negative human Burkitt lymphoma B-cell line established in 1979 at IARC Lyon from the bone marrow of a 7-year-old boy, carrying a MYC-IGL fusion; distinct from the BL2 B-cell surface antigen.
BL-41
BL-41 (CVCL_1087, DSMZ ACC 160) is an EBV-negative human Burkitt lymphoma B-cell line from an 8-year-old boy, established at IARC Lyon, carrying t(8;14) MYC translocation and TP53 Arg248Gln, widely used in lymphoma research.
BL-60
BL-60 (IARC/BL60, CVCL_7034, DSMZ ACC 953) is a human EBV-positive Burkitt lymphoma B-cell line established in 1984 from a 4-year-old Algerian girl's jaw biopsy, carrying a t(8;22) MYC-IGL fusion and TP53 p.Arg282Trp.
Blabbermouth.net
Blabbermouth.net is a United States-based heavy metal and hard rock news website founded in 2001 and run by Borivoj Krgin, serving as a daily reference point for metal fans worldwide.
Blaberidae
Blaberidae, the giant or ovoviviparous cockroach family (Blattodea, Blaberoidea), is the largest cockroach family with over 2000 species; its members retract the ootheca into a brood sac, and Diploptera punctata is viviparous.
BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar, launched in France in 2006 as covoiturage.fr, is a carpooling platform matching drivers with empty seats to passengers on long-distance trips, with 40 million active members a year in 41 countries.
Blac Chyna
Blac Chyna, born Angela Renée White (1988, Washington, D.C.), is an American model, rapper, and reality star from Rob & Chyna; since 2023 she goes publicly by Angela White after leaving OnlyFans and embracing sobriety and faith.
Blac Youngsta
Blac Youngsta (Samuel Marquez Benson) is a South Memphis rapper signed to Yo Gotti's CMG in 2015, founder of Heavy Camp, known for the gold single "Hip Hopper," the 2018 album 223, and the 2020 Top Ten mixtape Code Red with Moneybagg Yo.