Scientist/researcher Famous Names Starting with Letter B

A United States social psychologist. He is probably most famous for his work in bystander interventi

A United States social psychologist. He is probably most famous for his work in bystander intervention in emergencies with John Darley, but has also published many articles on social attraction in animals, social loafing in groups, and the spread of social influence in populations.Latané received his B.A. from Yale in 1958, and his Ph.D. with Stanley Schachter from Minnesota in 1963. He taught at Columbia University, the Ohio State University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1980s, he was director of UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science (now the Odum Institute). He is currently director of his own Center for Human Science[1] in Chapel Hill, NC.

Is an Australian pharmaceutical scientist whose work has developed medical treatments in a range of

Is an Australian pharmaceutical scientist whose work has developed medical treatments in a range of areas.

An Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, was also a geologist who

An Indian paleobotanist who studied the fossils of the Indian subcontinent, was also a geologist who took an interest in archaeology. He founded the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany[1] in Lucknow, India. [2]In 1917, Sahni joined Professor Seward to work on a 'Revision of Indian Gondwana plants' (1920, Palaeontologica Indica). In 1919 he briefly worked in Munich under the German plant morphologist Goebel. In 1920 he married Savitri Suri, daughter of Sunder Das Suri who was an Inspector of Schools in Punjab

Is a primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author of several books relating to the endange

Is a primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author of several books relating to the endangered species orangutan. Well known in the field of modern primatology, Galdikas is recognized as an authority on orangutans.

Was a German naturalist.Merrem was born at Bremen, and studied at the university of Göttingen under

Was a German naturalist.Merrem was born at Bremen, and studied at the university of Göttingen under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He developed an interest in zoology, particularly ornithology. He is remembered chiefly as the first ornithologist to propose a division of birds into Ratitae (ratites or running birds, with a flat sternum) and Carinatae (carinates or flying birds, with a keeled sternum), which formed part of his classification of birds in Tentamen Systematis Naturalis Avium, published in Berlin in 1816 (in Abhandlugen Akad. Wiss.

A Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist who discovered the Zeigarnik effect and established experimen

A Soviet psychologist and psychiatrist who discovered the Zeigarnik effect and established experimental psychopathology as a separate discipline.

Was a highly prolific and prominent Serbian mathematician, philosopher, and educator.

Was a highly prolific and prominent Serbian mathematician, philosopher, and educator.

Was a Czech physicist.Kucera studied physics at the Charles University in Prague and was the first s

Was a Czech physicist.Kucera studied physics at the Charles University in Prague and was the first scientist in Czech lands to examine the newly discovered effect of radioactivity. In 1912 he became professor of experimental physics at the university. He was the first to study droplets of mercury used as electrode (author of Zur Oberflächenspannung von polarisiertem Quecksilber, 1903). His work was the basis for the discovery of polarography by Jaroslav Heyrovský.

Is a retired NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 and is currently the president

Is a retired NASA astronaut. She retired from NASA in September 2005 and is currently the president and CEO of The Museum of Flight.

Was a Soviet scientist and power engineering specialist. He was born in Tiflis, Russia (presently Tb

Was a Soviet scientist and power engineering specialist. He was born in Tiflis, Russia (presently Tbilisi, Georgia), and died in Moscow, Russia.

Was a Soviet Russian archaeologist, who specialized in Scythian and Sarmatian archeology, classical

Was a Soviet Russian archaeologist, who specialized in Scythian and Sarmatian archeology, classical philology and ancient epigraphy.

Was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of

Was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and – following the 1953 coup against democratically-elected leftist Premier Mohammad Mossadegh – spent the rest of his life in exile in Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime, then returning to Germany once more following the 1979 revolution. His finest novel is Chashm'ha'yash (Her Eyes), which was published in Iran in 1952 and was subsequently banned.

Dr. Brenda Milner has been a pioneer in the field of neuropsychology and in the study of memory and

Dr. Brenda Milner has been a pioneer in the field of neuropsychology and in the study of memory and other cognitive functions in humans. She was the first to study the effects of damage to the medial temporal lobe on memory and systematically described the deficits in the most famous patient in cognitive neuroscience, HM.

Is a NASA astronaut.Selected by NASA in March 1992, Jett reported to the Johnson Space Center in Aug

Is a NASA astronaut.Selected by NASA in March 1992, Jett reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1992. After 2-years of various technical assignments in the Astronaut Office, Jett was assigned to his first mission as the pilot of STS-72. A year lat

Is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut. He is married and has grown children.

Is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former NASA astronaut. He is married and has grown children. Shaw is a descendant of William Brewster of the Mayflower.Shaw entered the Air Force in 1969 after completing Officer Training School, and attended underg

A Welsh physicist, professor, and became a Nobel Prize laureate at 33-years-old with Leo Esaki and I

A Welsh physicist, professor, and became a Nobel Prize laureate at 33-years-old with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever. He predicted the Josephson effect.

Is a former NASA astronaut.Since then, he has participated in the development and testing of display

Is a former NASA astronaut.Since then, he has participated in the development and testing of displays, flight crew procedures, and computer software to be used on Shuttle flights. He served as spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in Mission Control during num

Is a British computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastl

Is a British computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor at the School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, U.K. He specializing in research in software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early prior to 1950 history o

Is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritc

Is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought. He is also coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. The 'K' of K&R C and the 'K'

Is a former American astronaut and retired United States Coast Guard officer. Following retirement f

Is a former American astronaut and retired United States Coast Guard officer. Following retirement from NASA and the Coast Guard, he entered the aerospace industry. He served as a Vice President with the Boeing Co.'s Integrated Defense Systems group, in c

Is a former naval aviator with the United States Navy and former NASA astronaut. During the first of

Is a former naval aviator with the United States Navy and former NASA astronaut. During the first of his two Space Shuttle missions he made the first untethered, free flight using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

Is a retired United States Marine Corps colonel and former National Aeronautics and Space Administra

Is a retired United States Marine Corps colonel and former National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut.

Was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author's song" (????????? ?????, avtorskaya pes

Was one of the founders of the Russian genre called "author's song" (????????? ?????, avtorskaya pesnya). He was of Georgian origin, born in Moscow and died in Paris. He was the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of

Was an influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He

Was an influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974. He invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called Radical Behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology – the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings. He discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. In a recent survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He was a prolific author, publishing 21 books and 180 articles.

Is an American aviator and astronaut, who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar l

Is an American aviator and astronaut, who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. He was the second man to set foot on the Moon, after Mission Commander Neil Armstrong.Aldrin was born to Marion (nee Moon)[1] and Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr., a military man in Montclair, New Jersey,[2] where he became a Tenderfoot in the Boy Scouts of America.[3] He attended Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The nickname "Buzz" originated in childhood: his sister mispronounced "brother" as "buzzer" as a toddler, and this was shortened to Buzz. He made it his legal first name in 1988.[4][5]