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Bruno H. Zimm

Bruno H. Zimm (1920–2005) was an American physical chemist who studied polymers and DNA in solution, known for the Zimm plot, the Zimm model, and the Zimm–Bragg theory.

Bruno Klaholz

Bruno P. Klaholz is a CNRS Research Director at the IGBMC near Strasbourg who studies the ribosome by cryo-electron microscopy, mapping its structure and more than 230 RNA modifications.

Bruno Lemaître

Bruno Lemaître is a French immunologist whose 1996 Cell paper showed that the Toll receptor controls innate immunity in Drosophila, paving the way for Toll-like receptors.

Bruno Reversade

Bruno Reversade is a French developmental geneticist who leads a human embryology laboratory at A*STAR in Singapore, known for work on morphogen gradients and hereditary identical twinning.

Bruno Silva-Santos

Bruno Silva-Santos is a Portuguese immunologist and Full Professor at the University of Lisbon known for research on gamma-delta T cells and their use in cancer immunotherapy.

Bruno Tacke

Bruno Tacke (1861–1942) was a German peatland researcher and soil scientist who led the Bremen moor research station for 38 years and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Bryan Harrison

Bryan Harrison (born 1931) is a British plant virologist who worked at the Scottish Crop Research Institute in Dundee, studying soil-borne viruses, nematode transmission, and viral genome structure.

Bryan L. Roth

Bryan L. Roth is an American pharmacologist and structural biologist at UNC Chapel Hill, known for inventing DREADD chemogenetics and solving GPCR structures bound to LSD.

Bryan M. Turner

Bryan M. Turner, also known as Bryan Turner, is a British molecular biologist at the University of Birmingham known for histone modification antibodies and the histone code hypothesis in epigenetics.

Bryan McCranor

Bryan J. McCranor is an American research biochemist at the Army's Chemical Defense institute in Maryland, known for opioid countermeasures and winning the 2024 PECASE award.

Bryan R. Cullen

Bryan R. Cullen is a molecular virologist and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, known for research on HIV-1 Rev and herpesvirus microRNAs.

Bryce E. Nickels

Bryce E. Nickels is a molecular biologist and Professor of Genetics at Rutgers University's Waksman Institute of Microbiology, known for research on bacterial RNA polymerase, transcription start site selection, and NAD+-capped RNA.

Buddy Ullman

Buddy Ullman is a biochemist and molecular biologist known for building cell culture models of purine metabolism defects and for decades of molecular parasitology research on Leishmania.

Burkhard Becher

Burkhard Becher, born 1969 in Cologne, Germany, is a German immunologist who is Professor and Chair of the Institute of Experimental Immunology at the University of Zurich.

Burkhard Ludewig

Burkhard Ludewig is a Swiss immunologist and veterinarian who heads the Translational Cardioimmunology Unit at University Hospital Zurich, studying stromal and immune cell interactions in infection, cancer, and heart disease.

Burkhard Rost

Burkhard Rost is a German computational biologist, Chair of Bioinformatics at the Technical University of Munich, best known for PredictProtein, the first internet server for protein structure prediction.

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.

Buzz Baum

Buzz Baum is a British cell biologist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, known for work on mitosis and the inside-out model of eukaryogenesis.

Byron Caughey

Byron Caughey (1957–2026) was an American prion biochemist who led the TSE/Prion Biochemistry Section at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana and developed the RT-QuIC diagnostic assay.

C. B. van Niel

C. B. van Niel, born Cornelis Bernardus van Niel (1897–1985), was a Dutch-American microbiologist who discovered bacterial photosynthesis and taught for decades at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station.

C. Clark Cockerham

C. Clark Cockerham was an American quantitative geneticist at North Carolina State University whose variance-partitioning theory and 1984 Weir–Cockerham estimators remain widely used in population genetics.

C. D. Darlington

C. D. Darlington, born Cyril Dean Darlington, was a British cytologist and geneticist who founded modern cytogenetics, directed the John Innes Institute, and led British opposition to Lysenko.

C. Daniel Salzman

C. Daniel Salzman is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Columbia University, known for microstimulation studies of perceptual decisions and amygdala value encoding.

C. Erec Stebbins

C. Erec Stebbins is an American biomedical scientist and novelist who studies bacterial virulence, heading a structural biology division at the German Cancer Research Center since 2016.

C. Garrison Fathman

C. Garrison Fathman, known as Garry Fathman, is an American immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Stanford, known for the initial cloning of CD4 T lymphocytes.

C. James Ingles

C. James Ingles (Charles James Ingles) is a molecular biologist and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, known for work on RNA polymerase II and transcriptional activation.

C. Neil Hunter

C. Neil Hunter is a British biochemist and Fellow of the Royal Society who holds the Krebs Chair at Sheffield, known for cryo-EM structures of bacterial light-harvesting complexes.

C. Phillip Miller

C. Phillip Miller was an American bacteriologist at the University of Chicago who studied antibiotic resistance and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1956.

C. Randy Gallistel

Charles R. (Randy) Gallistel, born 1941, is an American cognitive scientist and Rutgers professor emeritus known for treating learning and memory as information storage and computation.

C. Robin Buell

C. Robin Buell is an American plant genomicist at the University of Georgia known for helping sequence the first plant genome, Arabidopsis, and the first crop genome, rice.