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Bruce C. Gibb

Bruce C. Gibb, born 1965 in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a Scottish chemist at Tulane University known for deep-cavity cavitands and studying the hydrophobic effect in water.

Bruce Clark Gates

Bruce Clark Gates is an American chemical engineer at UC Davis known for atomically dispersed catalysts, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.

Bruce D. Kay

Bruce D. Kay is an American experimental chemical physicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, known for molecular-beam studies of supercooled liquid water.

Bruce Dunn

Bruce Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA, on the faculty since 1980, known for pseudocapacitive energy storage research in transition metal oxides.

Bruce Elmegreen

Bruce Gordon Elmegreen (born 1950) is an American astrophysicist who spent almost 40 years at IBM Research and is known for work on triggered star formation.

Bruce Fegley

Bruce Fegley, Jr. is an American cosmochemist and Professor Emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, known for experimental studies of chemistry in the early solar system and planetary atmospheres.

Bruce H. Lipshutz

Bruce H. Lipshutz is an American organic chemist and professor at UC Santa Barbara known for green chemistry, including aqueous micellar catalysis and the surfactant TPGS-750-M.

Bruce H. Mahan

Bruce H. Mahan (1930–1982) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at UC Berkeley, pioneering the study of ion-molecule reactions and ion recombination.

Bruce Hapke

Bruce Hapke is an American planetary scientist at the University of Pittsburgh known for the Hapke reflectance model of light scattering from airless planetary surfaces.

Bruce J. Berne

Bruce J. Berne was an American theoretical chemist at Columbia University, a National Academy of Sciences member known for molecular simulation methods like RESPA and REST.

Bruce Merrifield

Bruce Merrifield, born Robert Bruce Merrifield, was an American chemist at Rockefeller University who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solid-phase peptide synthesis.

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 T. Cleveland

Bruce T. Cleveland was a solar neutrino physicist and Raymond Davis Jr.'s principal experimental collaborator on the Homestake chlorine experiment, lead author of its final 1998 paper.

Bruce T. Draine

Bruce T. Draine (born 1947) is an American theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University known for his work on interstellar dust, and author of the standard textbook on the interstellar medium.

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.

Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger is an Austrian mathematician who invented Gröbner bases and Buchberger's algorithm in his 1965 PhD thesis, founded RISC, and created the Theorema theorem-proving system.

Bruno Chaudret

Bruno Chaudret is a French chemist and CNRS research director in Toulouse, known for synthesizing metal nanoparticles of controlled size, shape, and surface from organometallic precursors.

Bruno de Finetti

Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985) was an Italian probabilist and statistician whose subjective theory of probability and representation theorem on exchangeable sequences became foundations of Bayesian statistics.

Bruno Pontecorvo

Bruno Pontecorvo (1913–1993) was an Italian nuclear physicist and student of Enrico Fermi who first proposed neutrino oscillations and defected to the Soviet Union in 1950.

Bruno Rossi

Bruno Rossi (1905–1993) was an Italian-American experimental physicist who invented the first electronic coincidence circuit in 1929, measured cosmic radiation's two components, discovered the magnetopause, and pioneered X-ray astronomy at MIT.

Bruno S. Bauer

Bruno S. Bauer is an American plasma physicist, professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, who received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1997.

Bruno Sander

Bruno Sander (1884–1979) was an Austrian geologist and professor at Innsbruck who founded petrofabric analysis, the science of rock fabrics, with his 1930 textbook Gefügekunde der Gesteine.

Bruno Scrosati

Bruno Scrosati (1937–2024) was an Italian electrochemist at Sapienza University of Rome who pioneered rechargeable lithium batteries, including the 1980 rocking-chair cell that became the prototype of the lithium-ion battery.

Bruno Touschek

Bruno Touschek (1921–1978) was an Austrian physicist who conceived the first electron–positron storage ring, AdA, at Frascati in 1960, and identified the beam-lifetime limit known as the Touschek effect.

Bruno Zumino

Bruno Zumino (1923–2014) was an Italian-born theoretical physicist who co-discovered four-dimensional supersymmetry with Julius Wess in 1974 and formulated supergravity with Stanley Deser, later teaching at UC Berkeley.

Bryan Birch

Bryan John Birch, born 1931 in Burton-on-Trent, is a British number theorist who formulated the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, a $1 million Millennium Prize Problem, and taught at Oxford.

Bryan Dickinson

Bryan C. Dickinson is a chemical biologist and professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, known for CIRTS, a programmable RNA-targeting system built from human proteins.

Bryan Gaensler

Bryan Gaensler is an Australian astronomer known for his work on magnetars, supernova remnants, and cosmic magnetism, and since 2023 Dean of Science at UC Santa Cruz.

Bryan Thwaites

Bryan Thwaites (born 1923) is a British applied mathematician who founded the School Mathematics Project and independently devised the 3n+1 problem known as the Collatz conjecture.

Bryan W. Eichhorn

Bryan W. Eichhorn is an American inorganic chemist and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, known for core-shell bimetallic nanoparticle catalysts, including the 2008 Ru@Pt fuel-cell catalyst.