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Burst stimulation
Burst stimulation is a spinal cord stimulation waveform that delivers pulses in short high-frequency packets, relieving neuropathic pain without paresthesia; the FDA approved it in October 2016.
Burst test
A burst test is a destructive pressure test in which a component, package, or vessel is pressurized until it fails, with the failure pressure recorded to establish safety margins.
Bursty star formation
Bursty star formation is a mode of galaxy growth in which star formation rates alternate between intense bursts and quiet phases, most pronounced in low-mass and high-redshift galaxies.
Burt (film)
Burt (2025) is a black-and-white American indie comedy-drama by Joe Burke and Oliver Cooper, starring real singer-songwriter Burt Berger, 69, who has Parkinson's, as a man visited by a stranger claiming to be his son; shot in 7 days for $7,000 and self-distributed after 28 festival rejections.
Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach (1928–2023), American composer and songwriter, wrote pop standards with lyricist Hal David for Dionne Warwick and others, winning three Oscars, multiple Grammys, and the 2012 Gershwin Prize.
Burt Baskin
Burt Baskin was an American businessman who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain with his brother-in-law Irv Robbins, dating to 1945 in Glendale, California, and known for its 31 flavors.
Burt Jastram
Burt Jastram (Burton Albert Jastram, 1910-1995), American rower and architect; won 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold in the men's eight, rowing 4th seat for the University of California crew.
Burt Jenner
Burt Jenner, eldest son of Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner and Chrystie Scott, is an American racing driver; Stadium Super Trucks race winner (2015 St. Petersburg, Belle Isle, 2016 Adelaide) and Baja 1000 competitor.
Burt Jones
Burt Jones is an American Republican politician serving as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Georgia and President of the Georgia State Senate, after six years as a state senator.
Burt Kwouk
Burt Kwouk (18 July 1930 - 24 May 2016), British actor of Chinese heritage born in Warrington and raised in Shanghai; best known as Cato in seven Pink Panther films, Mr Ling in Goldfinger, Major Yamauchi in Tenko, and Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine; OBE 2011.
Burt Lancaster
Burt Lancaster (Burton Stephen Lancaster), American actor born 1913 in East Harlem, died 1994; former circus acrobat turned Hollywood star, Oscar winner for Elmer Gantry, founder of Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, known for The Killers, From Here to Eternity, The Leopard.
Burt Munro
Burt Munro, born Herbert James Munro, was a New Zealand motorcycle racer who set an under-1,000 cc land speed record of 184.087 mph at Bonneville in 1967.
Burt Mustin
Burt Mustin (Burton Hill Mustin) was an American character actor who began his screen career at age 67 in 1951, appearing in more than 150 films and 400 TV productions.
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds (Burton Leon Reynolds Jr., 1936-2018), American actor and director, star of Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, and Boogie Nights; top box-office draw 1978-82, Emmy winner for Evening Shade.
Burt Rutan
Burt Rutan (Elbert Leander Rutan, born 1943) is an American aerospace engineer and aircraft designer known for Voyager and SpaceShipOne, the first private crewed spacecraft.
Burt Ward
Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis Jr., 1945) is the American actor who played Robin, the Boy Wonder, opposite Adam West in ABC's Batman (1966-1968, 120 episodes); later voice of Robin in animated films and founder of the Gentle Giants dog rescue.
Burt Young
Burt Young (Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, 1940-2023) was an American actor and painter who played Paulie Pennino in six Rocky films and earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for the 1976 original.
Burt's Bees
Burt's Bees is an American personal care company founded in 1984 in Maine by beekeeper Burt Shavitz and Roxanne Quimby, best known for its Beeswax Lip Balm.
Burton (Martian crater)
Burton is a 123 km wide impact crater on Mars in the southern mid-latitudes, officially named in 1973 for astronomer Charles E. Burton and known for its central peak.
Burton Albion F.C.
Burton Albion F.C., the Brewers, an English football club founded in Burton upon Trent in 1950; non-league until 2009, then Conference and League Two titles and Championship promotion in 2016, now in League One.
Burton Cummings
Burton Cummings (born 1947, Winnipeg) is a Canadian rock singer, songwriter, and keyboardist, lead vocalist of The Guess Who (1965-1975) with "American Woman," then a solo star with "Stand Tall" and triple-platinum Canadian certification.
Burton Downing
Burton Cecil Downing (1885–1929), American track cyclist from San José, California; won six medals (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) in all seven events at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, later a New York contracting firm president.
Burton E. Sobel
Burton E. Sobel (1937–2013) was an American cardiologist who led the first successful clinical use of tPA and directed cardiology at Washington University for 21 years.
Burton Goldberg
Burton Goldberg, also published as Burton D. Goldberg, was a researcher in collagen and fibroblast biology whose career ran from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s.
Burton Malkiel
Burton Gordon Malkiel, born 1932, is an American economist at Princeton University who popularized the efficient-market hypothesis through A Random Walk Down Wall Street and decades of advocating low-cost index funds.
Burton Richter
Burton Richter (1931–2018) was an American experimental particle physicist at SLAC who shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physics with Samuel Ting for discovering the J/psi particle.
Burton Singer
Burton Singer (1938–2026) was an American statistician and mathematical scientist who worked in econometrics, epidemiology, and tropical disease, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994.
Burton Smith
Burton Smith (1941–2018) was an American computer architect who designed the multithreaded Denelcor HEP and Tera MTA supercomputers, co-founded Tera Computer, and was a Microsoft Technical Fellow.
Burton Snowboards
Burton Snowboards, founded by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977 in Londonderry, Vermont, is a family-owned snowboard equipment maker headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, known for The Channel binding mount, Step On systems, and B Corp certification.
Burton upon Trent
Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire town on the River Trent, also called Burton-on-Trent; famed as the world brewing capital for its gypsum-rich water, the source of Burtonisation, with an abbey founded in 1002 by Wulfric Spot.