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Bruce N. Ames
Bruce N. Ames was an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for developing the Ames test, a low-cost bacterial assay that detects whether chemicals may cause cancer.
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is an American contemporary artist in sculpture, video, neon, and performance, known for using his own body and for having no single signature style.
Bruce Neal
Bruce Neal is a UK-trained physician and clinical epidemiologist, Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, who led the SSaSS salt-substitute trial in China and the CANVAS analyses of canagliflozin.
Bruce Nedrow Calonge
Bruce Nedrow (Ned) Calonge is an American physician and health-services researcher who chaired the US Preventive Services Task Force and twice served as Colorado's chief medical officer.
Bruce Nuclear Generating Station
The Bruce Nuclear Generating Station is an eight-unit CANDU nuclear plant on Lake Huron at Tiverton, Ontario, built between 1970 and 1987 and supplying roughly a third of Ontario's electricity.
Bruce nuclear power plant
Bruce Nuclear Power is a nuclear generating station in Tiverton, Ontario, operated by Bruce Power. It houses eight CANDU units and incorporates facilities like the Western Waste Management Facility.
Bruce Onobrakpeya
Bruce Onobrakpeya (born 30 August 1932, Agbarha-Otor, Nigeria) is a Nigerian printmaker, painter, and sculptor who co-founded the Zaria Art Society and invented techniques including plastograph and bronzed lino relief.
Bruce P. Bean
Bruce P. Bean, born in 1951, is an American neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School who studies how ion channels control the excitability of neurons and cardiac muscle.
Bruce P. Crandall
Bruce P. Crandall was a United States Army aviator who received the Medal of Honor for flying 22 helicopter missions into the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965.
Bruce P. Lanphear
Bruce P. Lanphear, born in 1963, is a Canadian-American physician and epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University whose research showed lead impairs children's IQ below 10 µg/dL.
Bruce Paltrow
Bruce William Paltrow (1943-2002), American TV producer-director, creator of The White Shadow and executive producer of St. Elsewhere; husband of Blythe Danner, father of Gwyneth Paltrow; 1997 DGA Diversity Award recipient.
Bruce Pandolfini
Bruce Pandolfini is an American chess teacher and author in New York City who began teaching after the 1972 Fischer–Spassky broadcast, coached Fabiano Caruana, and inspired Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe, born 1947, is an Australian writer and historian of Bunurong, Palawa, and Yuin heritage, best known for Dark Emu (2014), arguing Aboriginal Australians practiced agriculture before colonization.
Bruce Payne
Bruce Payne (Bruce Martyn Payne, born 1958) is an English actor and producer known for villain roles: Charles Rane in Passenger 57, Jacob Kell in Highlander: Endgame, and Damodar in Dungeons & Dragons.
Bruce Pearl
Bruce Pearl, born 1961, is an American college basketball coach who won 694 games over 30 seasons and led Auburn to two Final Fours before retiring in 2025.
Bruce Peterson
Bruce Peterson is an Australian cosmologist and Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the Australian National University, co-author of the 1965 Gunn-Peterson paper on quasar absorption by neutral hydrogen.
Bruce Power
Bruce Power is Canada's only private sector nuclear generator, operating eight CANDU reactors at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station near Tiverton, Ontario, under lease from Ontario Power Generation since 2001.
Bruce Prichard
Bruce Prichard, WWE executive director and creator of the Brother Love character, longtime Vince McMahon creative aide, TNA/Impact and MLW alumnus, and co-creator of the Something to Wrestle podcast with Conrad Thompson.
Bruce protocol
Bruce protocol: Robert A. Bruce's 1963 multistage treadmill stress test, the most used exercise ECG protocol, with 3-minute stages from 1.7 mph/10% grade; modified Bruce adds two easier warm-up stages.
Bruce R. Bacon
Bruce R. Bacon, also known as Bruce Bacon (1949–2025), was an American hepatologist at Saint Louis University who helped discover the HFE hemochromatosis gene and led hepatitis C clinical trials.
Bruce R. Blazar
Bruce R. Blazar is a pediatric hematologist-oncologist and immunologist, Regents Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, known for graft-versus-host disease and regulatory T cell therapy research.
Bruce R. Conklin
Bruce R. Conklin, MD, is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF professor known for engineering GPCR signaling and CRISPR editing of human stem cells.
Bruce R. McConkie
Bruce R. McConkie (1915–1985) was an American apostle of the LDS Church who served in the Quorum of the Twelve from 1972 and wrote Mormon Doctrine.
Bruce R. Zetter
Bruce R. Zetter is a cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, a pioneer in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis who defined the role of cell migration in metastatic cancer.
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner, Republican private equity investor and 42nd governor of Illinois (2015-2019), defeated Pat Quinn in 2014; his term featured a record 736-day budget impasse and a 2018 loss to J.B. Pritzker.
Bruce Reynolds
Bruce Richard Reynolds (1931-2013), nicknamed "Napoleon", was the English career criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery, stealing £2,631,684 from a Glasgow-London mail train, then spent years on the run before a 25-year sentence.
Bruce Robertson
Bruce Robertson is the name of two Canadian Olympic medalists: swimmer Bruce Richard Robertson (born 1953, Vancouver), 1972 silver and 1973 world 100m butterfly champion, and rower Bruce D. Robertson (born 1962, Calgary), 1992 Olympic eights gold medalist.
Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson (born 1946), British director, screenwriter, novelist, and actor; wrote and directed Withnail and I (1987) and How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989), wrote The Killing Fields, and returned to directing with The Rum Diary (2011).
Bruce Rockowitz
Bruce Rockowitz, Canadian Hong Kong businessman (born 1958, Boston), co-founded Colby International, led Li & Fung as CEO 2011–2014, headed Global Brands Group, chairs Rock Media, co-founded Pure Group, Wynn Macau director.
Bruce Rogers
Bruce Rogers (1870–1957) was an American typographer and book designer, regarded as the leading American book designer of his era, who created the Centaur typeface.