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Bruce Weber (photographer)
Bruce Weber (born 1946, Greensburg, Pennsylvania) is an American fashion photographer and filmmaker, not the Seattle pet photographer of the same name, known for Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren campaigns and the Oscar-nominated film Let's Get Lost.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz (born 1943, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American actor, also credited as Bruce Peter Weitz, who won a 1984 Emmy for playing Sgt. Mick Belker on Hill Street Blues (1981–1987) and later played Anthony Zacchara on General Hospital.
Bruce Welch
Bruce Welch OBE (born Bruce Cripps, 1941) is an English guitarist, songwriter and producer, founding rhythm guitarist of the Shadows, Cliff Richard's backing band; writer of Foot Tapper and Summer Holiday, producer for Olivia Newton-John, OBE 2004.
Bruce Westerman
Bruce Westerman, born 1967, is a Republican U.S. Representative for Arkansas's 4th congressional district since 2015, chairing the House Committee on Natural Resources and previously serving in the Arkansas General Assembly.
Bruce Western
Bruce Western, born 1964, is an Australian-born sociologist who studies poverty, inequality, and U.S. incarceration, taught at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia, and became Russell Sage Foundation president in 2025.
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis (born 1955) is the American actor known as David Addison on Moonlighting and John McClane in Die Hard; over $5 billion box office; retired in 2022 with aphasia, later diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Bruce Willis filmography
Bruce Willis filmography: 142 credited screen roles (131 films, 11 TV series), 1980–2023, by the American actor also known as Bruno. Defining entries: David Addison in Moonlighting, John McClane in Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, over $5 billion box office.
Bruce Winstein
Bruce Winstein (1943–2011) was an American experimental physicist at the University of Chicago known for precision CP violation measurements in neutral kaons and, later, cosmic microwave background polarization.
Bruce Α. Freeman
Bruce A. Freeman is an American pharmacologist and redox biologist who is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for research on myeloperoxidase and nitro-fatty acids.
Brucea
Brucea J.F.Mill. is a Paleotropical genus of bitter-barked shrubs in Simaroubaceae, about five to nine species, whose Brucea javanica (Ya-dan-zi) yields quassinoids such as bruceines used against dysentery, malaria, and cancer.
Brucejack Mine
The Brucejack Mine is an underground gold-silver mine 65 km north of Stewart in northwest British Columbia, Canada, owned by Newmont and producing since 2017.
Brucella
Brucella: genus of gram-negative facultative intracellular coccobacilli causing brucellosis; key species B. melitensis, abortus, suis, canis; two-chromosome genome, VirB T4SS virulence, low infectious dose.
Brucella abortus
Brucella abortus, also called Bang's bacillus or Bacillus abortus, is a Gram-negative bacterium causing brucellosis and contagious abortion in cattle, a serious zoonotic human pathogen, controlled by S19 and RB51 vaccines.
Brucella canis
Brucella canis is a rough, Gram-negative Brucella species of dogs, discovered in 1966–1967 in beagles, causing canine reproductive disease and rare, underdiagnosed zoonotic human infections; standard serology misses it and no vaccine exists.
Brucella melitensis
Brucella melitensis is a Gram-negative bacterium that primarily infects sheep and goats and is the most virulent Brucella species for humans, causing Malta fever. It was isolated in Malta by David Bruce in 1887.
Brucella suis
Brucella suis is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes swine brucellosis, a disease of pigs marked by abortion and infertility, and it infects humans who handle infected pigs or carcasses.
Brucellosis
Brucellosis, also called Malta fever or undulant fever, is a zoonotic bacterial disease caused by Brucella species, spread by raw dairy, undercooked meat, and animal contact, treated with 6-8 weeks of antibiotics.
Brucite
Brucite is a magnesium hydroxide mineral, Mg(OH)₂, described in 1824 from New Jersey serpentine and named for Archibald Bruce; it reacts readily with CO₂ for mineral carbonation.
Bruck syndrome
Bruck syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive bone disease combining osteogenesis imperfecta with congenital joint contractures; caused by FKBP10 (type 1) or PLOD2 (type 2) mutations, under 1 in 1,000,000 prevalence.
Bruck/leitha
ASK-BSC Bruck/Leitha, Austrian football club from Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria; formed 1983 from ASK Bruck and Brucker Sportclub, played Regionalliga Ost 2017-2023, reached 2017/18 cup round two, dissolved 31 October 2023.
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co.
Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. is a New York private equity firm, founded in 1995 by three former Citicorp Venture Capital colleagues, investing in consumer companies.
Brüder-Grimm-Preis des Landes Berlin
The Brüder-Grimm-Preis des Landes Berlin, or Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin, was an award for children's and youth theater, presented biennially from 1961 and endowed with 10,000 euros.
Bruderhof Communities
Bruderhof Communities: Anabaptist communal Christian movement founded 1920 by Eberhard Arnold in Sannerz, Germany; shares all property (common purse), related to but separate from the Hutterites, with communities on four continents.
Bruegel (Mercurian crater)
Bruegel is a 75-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at about 49.8°N, 107.5°W, approved by the IAU in 1985 and named for Pieter Bruegel, the Flemish painter (1525-1569), under Mercury's artist-naming theme.
Bruegel (think tank)
Bruegel is a Brussels-based European economics think tank founded in 2005 after a Franco-German initiative, funded by EU governments and corporations, governed by a board chaired by Jean-Claude Trichet, and ranked second among non-US think tanks in 2013.
Bruel Acoustics
Bruel Acoustics is a small Danish company founded in 1992 by acoustical engineer Per V. Brüel, who had co-founded the instrumentation firm Brüel & Kjær in 1942.
Brugada syndrome
Brugada syndrome (BrS), an inherited cardiac channelopathy first described by Pedro and Josep Brugada in 1992, causes coved ST elevation in V1-V2 and sudden cardiac death; SCN5A loss-of-function variants, fever, and sodium channel blockers are key factors.
Bruges
Bruges (Brugge), West Flanders, Belgium: medieval trading metropolis, host of the Hanseatic League's chief trading post, birthplace of Flemish Primitive painting, UNESCO World Heritage historic centre since 2000, population about 120,000.
Brugge
Brugge (Brügge) is a 2013 Stefan Feld board game for 2–4 players from Hans im Glück, set in medieval Bruges, with 165 multi-use character cards, dice-driven threats, canal and house building; reissued as Hamburg in 2022.
Brugge, Flanders
Brugge (Bruges), West Flanders, Belgium: medieval trading metropolis and UNESCO World Heritage site (Historic Centre of Brugge, 2000, criteria ii, iv, vi; 410 ha). Cradle of the Flemish Primitives, Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling; brick Gothic, canals, Belfry.