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Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman (1930-2018), American actor and author; created Edmund Tyrone in the original Broadway Long Day's Journey Into Night, shared the 1959 Cannes Best Actor award for Compulsion, won a 1975 Daytime Emmy, and later wrote books including Are You Anybody?
Bradford Factor
The Bradford Factor, also known as the Bradford Index or Bradford Score, is a formula UK employers use to score sickness absence, weighting frequent short absences heavily.
Bradford H. Gray
Bradford H. Gray is an American sociologist and health services researcher, senior fellow emeritus at the Urban Institute and editor of The Milbank Quarterly for 13 years.
Bradford H. Hager
Bradford H. Hager (B. H. Hager) is an American geophysicist, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences at MIT, known for work on mantle flow and the geoid.
Bradford Hill criteria
The Bradford Hill criteria, also called Hill's criteria, are nine considerations for judging whether an exposure causes disease, presented by Austin Bradford Hill in 1965.
Bradford murders
The Bradford murders were the 2009-2010 killings of three Bradford sex workers, Susan Rushworth, Shelley Armitage, and Suzanne Blamires, by Stephen Griffiths, the self-styled Crossbow Cannibal, a criminology PhD student who received a whole life order in 2010.
Bradford Parkinson
Bradford Parkinson, born 1935, is an American systems engineer and retired Air Force colonel who served as chief architect and first program director of GPS.
Bradford protein assay
Bradford protein assay: 1976 colorimetric dye-binding method using Coomassie Brilliant Blue G-250 (465 to 595 nm shift) to quantify microgram protein; arginine-driven response, detergent-sensitive, 96-well compatible.
Bradford, PA Micro Area
Bradford, PA Micro Area (CBSA 14620) is a micropolitan statistical area covering McKean County, Pennsylvania, with principal city Bradford. Population 39,904 (ACS 2024), 979.7 sq mi, median age 44, median household income $62,905, oil-field heritage.
Bradgate Formation
Bradgate Formation: Ediacaran volcaniclastic unit of the Maplewell Group, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, at least 175 m thick, base dated 563 ± 1.9 Ma; hosts Charnia masoni and most Charnwood Ediacaran fossils.
Bradgley Rodríguez
Bradgley Rodriguez (BRAD-glay), Venezuelan right-handed relief pitcher for the San Diego Padres; signed 2021, MLB debut May 31, 2025; 2.19 ERA in 68 games in 2026, fastball up to 100 mph.
Bradie Tennell
Bradie Tennell (born 1998, Winfield, Illinois) is an American figure skater, 2018 Olympic team event bronze medalist, two-time U.S. champion (2018, 2021), and 2025 Four Continents silver medalist.
Bradley A. Malin
Bradley A. Malin is an American biomedical informatician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who studies health data re-identification and privacy, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
Bradley Barcola
Bradley Barcola, French left winger born 2002 in Villeurbanne; Lyon academy product, PSG 2023-2026 with two Champions League titles, then Liverpool for about £123m; France 32 caps, 6 goals.
Bradley Beal
Bradley Beal (born 1993) is an NBA shooting guard for the LA Clippers; former Wizards star (3rd pick 2012, 3x All-Star, 31.3 ppg in 2020-21) traded to the Suns in 2023 under a $251 million no-trade contract, later bought out.
Bradley Bernstein
Bradley E. Bernstein is an American cancer epigenetics researcher who chairs the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is known for discovering bivalent domains in embryonic stem cells.
Bradley Burrowes
Bradley-Paul Burrowes (born 2008, Bristol) is an English right winger at Aston Villa, on loan at Wigan Athletic; one Premier League appearance, England U17 with 5 caps.
Bradley C Paasch
Bradley Carlton Paasch is an American plant scientist at Duke University who studies how plant microbiota regulate immunity, showing a healthy microbiota gates immune development in Arabidopsis.
Bradley Center
Bradley Center (BMO Harris Bradley Center), Milwaukee arena opened October 1, 1988 as a Pettit family gift; home of the Bucks, Admirals, and Marquette basketball until 2017; demolished 2019 for Fiserv Forum district.
Bradley Chubb
Bradley Chubb, NFL outside linebacker (born 1996, Marietta, Georgia); NC State star drafted fifth overall by Denver in 2018, traded to Miami 2022, Pro Bowler, released 2026, now with Buffalo Bills.
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper (born 1975, Philadelphia) is an American actor, director, and 12-time Oscar nominee known for The Hangover, Silver Linings Playbook, American Sniper, A Star Is Born, and Maestro; his third film Is This Thing On? (2026) and G.I. Joe and Ocean's prequel projects are current.
Bradley D. Olsen
Bradley D. Olsen is an American polymer scientist and chemical engineer who holds the Kasser Chair in Chemical Engineering at MIT, known for protein-polymer block copolymers and engineered protein hydrogels.
Bradley Dack
Bradley Paul Dack, English attacking midfielder born 1993, known for Gillingham and Blackburn Rovers; 50 Blackburn goals, two ACL injuries, now back at Gillingham in League Two.
Bradley E. Schaefer
Bradley E. Schaefer is an American astronomer and Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University, known for gamma-ray burst cosmology and for showing a type Ia supernova remnant has no companion star.
Bradley effect
Bradley effect: claimed polling bias where pre-election polls overstate support for Black candidates against white opponents, named for Tom Bradley's 1982 California gubernatorial loss; also called Wilder or Dinkins effect; evidence suggests it faded after the early 1990s.
Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron, born 1938 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is an American statistician and Stanford professor emeritus, the inventor of the bootstrap resampling method and also known for least angle regression.
Bradley F. Chmelka
Bradley F. Chmelka, also published as B. F. Chmelka, is a chemical engineer and professor at UC Santa Barbara since 1992, known for solid-state NMR studies of mesoporous silica and zeolite catalysts.
Bradley Fighting Vehicle
The Bradley Fighting Vehicle, often called the Bradley tank, is a family of American tracked armored combat vehicles fielded in 1981, serving as the M2 infantry and M3 cavalry versions.
Bradley Garrett
Bradley Garrett is a geographer and explorer-researcher known for place hacking with urban explorers, scaling the Shard in 2012, and his 2020 book Bunker about preppers.
Bradley International Airport
Bradley International Airport, also known as Bradley Airport, is a public airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, serving the Hartford–Springfield region with about 6.7 million passengers in 2024.