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Bronson Reed

Bronson Reed, formerly Jonah Rock, is an Australian WWE heavyweight wrestler from Black Forest, South Australia, a former NXT North American Champion, 2024 André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal winner, and member of The Vision with the Tsunami finisher.

Brønsted acid catalysis

Brønsted acid catalysis is catalysis in which a proton donor transfers a proton to a substrate, ranging from mineral acids to zeolites and chiral phosphoric acids.

Brønsted catalysis equation

The Brønsted catalysis equation, also called the Brønsted catalysis law, correlates the catalytic coefficient of an acid or base catalyst with its acid dissociation constant.

Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory

The Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory, proposed independently by Johannes Brønsted and Thomas Lowry in 1923, defines an acid as a proton donor and a base as a proton acceptor.

Bronte Barratt

Bronte Barratt is a retired Australian freestyle swimmer who won four Olympic medals, including gold in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at Beijing 2008.

Bronte Campbell

Bronte Campbell (b. 1994, Blantyre, Malawi) is an Australian swimmer, sister of Cate Campbell, who won 4x100m freestyle relay gold at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, and Paris 2024, plus Tokyo mixed medley bronze, and the 2015 world 50m and 100m freestyle double; retired 2026.

Bronte Carmichael

Bronte Carmichael is a British child actress, daughter of Tristan Sturrock and Katy Carmichael, known as Madeline Robin in Disney's Christopher Robin (2018) and Leida Mothma in Andor (2022–2025).

Brontë family

The Brontë family of Haworth, West Yorkshire: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, authors of Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, with brother Branwell and father Patrick, preserved at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Brontosaurus

Brontosaurus (Marsh, 1879), the thunder lizard, is a Late Jurassic Morrison Formation sauropod genus reinstated as distinct from Apatosaurus by the 2015 Tschopp et al. PeerJ study, with species excelsus, parvus, and yahnahpin.

Bronwen Lewis

Bronwen Lewis is a Welsh bilingual singer-songwriter from Seven Sisters, Dulais Valley, known for The Voice UK Series 2 (2013), the film Pride, Welsh-language TikTok covers, BBC Radio Wales shows, and coaching Y Llais.

Bronwyn Corbett

Bronwyn Corbett, also known as Bronwyn Knight, is a South African chartered accountant and chief executive of Grit Real Estate Income Group, a pan-African fund she co-founded in 2014.

Bronwyn H. Hall

Bronwyn H. Hall, born 1945, is an economist and emerita professor at UC Berkeley known for the NBER patent data files and measuring the returns to research and development.

Bronwyn James

Bronwyn James (born 1994, Wakefield, Yorkshire per IMDb; some databases list London) is an English actress known for Fanny Lambert in Harlots, ShenShen in Wicked (2024), DC Muriel Yeardsley in Wild Bill, Ellen McKenzie in The Dig, and Ruffnut in the 2025 live-action How to Train Your Dragon; trained at CAPA College and ALRA North, debuting in Hangmen (2015). Not the Australian actress Bronwen James of Cut and Anzac Girls.

Bronwyn Mayer Smith

Bronwyn Mayer Smith (born 1974), also Bronwyn Smith, Australian water polo driver; won gold at Sydney 2000, the first Olympic women's tournament, and placed fourth at Athens 2004.

Bronwyn Newport

Bronwyn Newport is an American fashion writer, Broadway producer, and cast member of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City from Season 5; known for maximalist style, her Substack Threads of Individuality, and her 2025 separation from Todd Bradley.

Bronx High School of Science

The Bronx High School of Science, a New York City specialized public high school founded in 1938, admits via the SHSAT and counts nine Nobel laureates among its alumni.

Bronx Zoo

Bronx Zoo (New York Zoological Park), WCS flagship zoo in Bronx Park, New York City, opened November 8, 1899; 265 acres, over 11,000 animals of more than 600 species, first director William T. Hornaday.

Bronx–Whitestone Bridge

The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, also called the Whitestone Bridge, is a suspension bridge spanning the East River between Queens and the Bronx in New York City, opened in 1939.

Bronxville, New York

Bronxville is an incorporated village in the Town of Eastchester, Westchester County, New York, about 16 miles from midtown Manhattan; incorporated 1898, population 6,656 (2020), on the Metro-North Harlem Line.

Bronya

Bronya is a recurring HoYoverse character: Bronya Zaychik in Honkai Impact 3rd and Bronya Rand in Honkai: Star Rail, alternate-universe counterparts adopted by Cocolia, with variants Bronie and Silver Wolf.

Bronze

Bronze (Bronzo) is an alloy of copper and tin, typically 5 to 13 percent tin in sculpture, much harder than either parent metal and used since antiquity for tools, weapons, sculpture, and bells.

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age, the era defined by copper-tin bronze after the Stone Age, spans roughly 3200–1050 BC in the Aegean; it saw the first city-states such as Mari, Ebla, and Ugarit, long-distance tin trade, and the Late Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BCE.

Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki

Sammallahdenmäki (Kirkonlaattia among its cairns) is a UNESCO World Heritage Bronze Age burial site near Rauma, Finland: 33-36 granite cairns, 1500-500 BC, Gulf of Bothnia.

Bronze Age of Comic Books

The Bronze Age of Comic Books is the era of American comic book publishing from about 1970 to 1985, between the Silver Age and the Modern Age.

Bronze Age Pervert

Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) is a pseudonymous far-right online influencer and author of the 2018 self-published book Bronze Age Mindset, widely identified with Yale Ph.D. Costin Alamariu and associated with the manosphere and dissident right.

Bronze Athena/Athena Promachos

Athena Promachos (Ἀθηνᾶ Πρόμαχος), Athena who fights in front: an epithet of the armed city-protectress and the lost colossal bronze Acropolis statue by Pheidias, dated shortly before 450 BC, about 7–16 m tall, moved to Constantinople and destroyed in 1204.

Bronze Figure and Illustrated Manual of Acumoxa (Tongren shuxue zhenjiu tujing)

The Bronze Figure and Illustrated Manual of Acumoxa (铜人腧穴针灸图经) is a 1026 Chinese acupuncture manual by Wang Weiyi, paired with bronze figures for examining medical students.

Bronze Head of Queen Mother Idia

The Bronze Head of Queen Mother Idia is a 16th-century cast brass commemorative head from the Kingdom of Benin, made for the ancestral altar of Idia, mother of Oba Esigie.

Bronze inscriptions

Bronze inscriptions (金文) are texts cast on Chinese bronze vessels from the late Shang through the Western Zhou dynasty, the principal written source for Western Zhou history.

Bronze Mask with Protruding Eyes

The Bronze Mask with Protruding Eyes (青铜纵目面具) is a large Shang-dynasty bronze mask, 138 cm wide, with cylindrical pupils projecting about 16 cm, unearthed in 1986 at Sanxingdui, Guanghan, Sichuan.