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Boris A. Malomed

Boris A. Malomed, also published as B. A. Malomed, is a theoretical physicist at Tel Aviv University known for work on solitons and Bose–Einstein condensates.

Boris Altshuler

Boris Altshuler, born 1955 in Leningrad, is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and Columbia University professor known for the Altshuler-Aronov corrections, universal conductance fluctuations, and many-body localization.

Boris Arbuzov (chemist)

Boris Aleksandrovich Arbuzov (Борис Александрович Арбузов; 1903–1991) was a Soviet organic chemist who led the Kazan school of chemistry and pioneered conformational analysis in the USSR.

Boris Delaunay

Boris Delaunay, born Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, was a Soviet mathematician in the geometry of numbers and algebra, known for the Delaunay triangulation from his 1934 paper Sur la sphère vide.

Boris Derjaguin

Boris Derjaguin, fully Boris Vladimirovich Derjaguin (1902–1994), was a Soviet physical chemist who founded modern colloid and surface science, known for DLVO theory, disjoining pressure, and the Derjaguin approximation.

Boris Gnedenko

Boris Gnedenko, also known as Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, was a Soviet mathematician who proved the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko extreme value theorem in 1943 and led probability at Moscow State University.

Boris Levitan

Boris Moiseevich Levitan (Левитан Борис Моисеевич; 1914–2004) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, co-creator of the Gelfand–Levitan method and winner of the 1962 Lenin Prize.

Boris Plotkin

Boris Isaakovich Plotkin (Борис Исаакович Плоткин; 1925–2023) was a Soviet and Israeli algebraist known for his 1966 monograph on automorphism groups and for founding universal algebraic geometry.

Boris Rybtchinski

Boris Rybtchinski (born 1971) is an Israeli materials chemist who heads the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.

Boris Shklovskii

Boris Shklovskii (Шкловский Борис Ионович), born 1944, is a condensed-matter physicist at the University of Minnesota, best known for the Coulomb gap and the Efros–Shklovskii hopping law.

Boris Sokolov (paleontologist)

Boris Sokolov, or Boris Sergeevich Sokolov (1914–2013), was a Russian paleontologist and stratigrapher who founded Precambrian paleontology and defined the Vendian system, winning the Lenin Prize.

Boris Svistunov

Boris Svistunov, born in 1959, is a condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for work on superfluidity, supersolidity, and the worm algorithm.

Boris Tsirelson

Boris Tsirelson (Борис Цирельсон, 1950–2020) was a Russian-born Israeli mathematician at Tel Aviv University known for Tsirelson's bound in quantum mechanics and Tsirelson's space in Banach space theory.

Boris Weisfeiler

Boris Weisfeiler (Борис Юльевич Вейсфейлер) was a Soviet-born group theorist at Penn State who co-invented the Weisfeiler–Leman graph isomorphism test and disappeared while hiking in Chile in January 1985.

Börje Johansson

Börje Johansson, born in 1943, is a Swedish condensed matter physicist known for his theory of rare-earth and actinide elements and for high-pressure geophysics, including his 2003 Nature paper on iron in the Earth's inner core.

Boubacar Kanté

Boubacar Kanté is the Chenming Hu Chaired Professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley, known for the topological laser named a top 10 discovery of 2017 by Physics World.

Boyce McDaniel

Boyce McDaniel was an American experimental nuclear physicist at Cornell University who gave the first atomic bomb its final check at the Trinity test in 1945.

Bradford H. Hager

Bradford H. Hager (B. H. Hager) is an American geophysicist, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth Sciences at MIT, known for work on mantle flow and the geoid.

Bradley D. Olsen

Bradley D. Olsen is an American polymer scientist and chemical engineer who holds the Kasser Chair in Chemical Engineering at MIT, known for protein-polymer block copolymers and engineered protein hydrogels.

Bradley E. Schaefer

Bradley E. Schaefer is an American astronomer and Professor Emeritus at Louisiana State University, known for gamma-ray burst cosmology and for showing a type Ia supernova remnant has no companion star.

Bradley Efron

Bradley Efron, born 1938 in St. Paul, Minnesota, is an American statistician and Stanford professor emeritus, the inventor of the bootstrap resampling method and also known for least angle regression.

Bradley L. Pentelute

Bradley L. Pentelute is an American chemical biologist, Professor of Chemistry at MIT, known for automated fast-flow peptide synthesis and using nontoxic anthrax toxin to deliver drugs into cells.

Brahim Lounis

Brahim Lounis is a French nanophysicist and professor at Université de Bordeaux who demonstrated the first triggered single-photon source based on a single molecule at room temperature.

Brandi C. M. Cossairt

Brandi C. M. Cossairt is an American inorganic chemist at the University of Washington, where she has taught since 2012, known for work on indium phosphide quantum dots.

Brandon Carter

Brandon Carter, born in Sydney, is an Australian theoretical physicist known for the 1968 Kerr spacetime analysis, the 1973 four laws of black hole mechanics, and coining the anthropic principle.

Brandon Cochenour

Brandon Cochenour is an American electrical engineer and Navy civilian researcher at Patuxent River, Maryland, known for underwater optical communications and winning a 2019 PECASE award.

Brebis Bleaney

Brebis Bleaney (1915–2006) was a British experimental physicist who independently invented electron paramagnetic resonance at Oxford and led the Clarendon Laboratory from 1957 to 1977.

Brent Dalrymple

G. Brent Dalrymple (born 1937) is an American geologist who built the geomagnetic polarity time scale and wrote the 1991 book The Age of the Earth.

Brent S. Sumerlin

Brent S. Sumerlin is an American polymer chemist who holds a professorship at the University of Florida, known for RAFT polymerization, stimuli-responsive polymers, and covalent adaptable networks that make plastics recyclable.

Brett A. Bryan

Brett A. Bryan, also published as Brett Bryan, is an Australian environmental scientist and Deakin Distinguished Professor known for his land-system sustainability research at Deakin University.