Scientific Phenomena Named After People - B

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• Baeyer–Drewson indigo synthesis – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and Viggo Drewsen
• Baeyer–Villiger oxidation and Baeyer–Villiger rearrangement – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer and Victor Villiger
• Bagnold number – Ralph Alger Bagnold
• Baily's beads – Francis Baily
• Baker–Nathan effect – John William Baker and Wilfred S. Nathan
• Bakerian mimicry – Herbert G. Baker
• Baldwin effect (astronomy) – Jack Allen Baldwin
• Baldwin effect (Baldwinian evolution, Ontogenic evolution) – James Mark Baldwin
• Baldwin's rules – Sir Jack Edward Baldwin
• Balmer line, series – Johann Jakob Balmer
• Bamberger rearrangement – Eugen Bamberger
• Bamford–Stevens reaction – William Randall Bamford and Thomas Stevens Stevens
• Bardeen vacuum – James Maxwell Bardeen
• Barkhausen effect – Heinrich Barkhausen
• Barnett effect – Samuel Jackson Barnett
• Barnum effect (a.k.a. Forer effect) – Phineas Taylor Barnum (and Bertram R. Forer)
• Barro–Ricardo equivalence – Robert Barro and David Ricardo
• Barton reaction – Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton
• Barton–McCombie deoxygenation – Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton and Stuart W. McCombie
• Baskerville effect – the fictional Charles Baskerville of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
• Batesian mimicry – Henry Walter Bates
• Bayes' theorem – Rev. Thomas Bayes
• Baylis–Hillman reaction – Anthony B. Baylis and Melville E. D. Hillman
• Bayliss effect – William M. Bayliss
• BCS superconduction theory – John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, and Robert Schrieffer
• Beaufort scale (Beaufort wind force scale) – Sir Francis Beaufort
• Beckmann rearrangement – Ernst Otto Beckmann
• Beer's law (a.k.a. Beer–Lambert law or Beer–Lambert–Bouguer law) – August Beer (and Johann Heinrich Lambert and Pierre Bouguer)
• Beilstein's test – Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
• Bejan number – Adrian Bejan
• Bekenstein bound – Jacob Bekenstein
• Bélády's anomaly – László Bélády
• Bell's inequality – John Stewart Bell
• Bell number – Eric Temple Bell
• Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction – Boris Pavlovich Belousov and Anatol Markovich Zhabotinskii
• Bénard cell – Henri Bénard
• Bénard–Marangoni cell/convection (a.k.a. Marangoni convection) – Henri Bénard and Carlo Marangoni
• Benedict's test – Stanley Rossiter Benedict
• Benford's law – Frank Albert Benford, Jr.
• Benioff zone – see Wadati–Benioff zone, below
• Bennett pinch – Willard Harrison Bennett
• Berezinsky–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition – Veniamin L. Berezinsky, John M. Kosterlitz, and David J. Thouless
• Bergman cyclization – Robert George Bergman
• Bergmann's rule – Christian Bergmann
• Bergmann–Zervas carbobenzoxy method – Max Bergmann and Leonidas Zervas
• Bernoulli effect, Bernoulli's equation, principle – Daniel Bernoulli
• Berry's phase – Michael V. Berry
• Betz limit – Albert Betz
• Bezold–Brücke shift (a.k.a. von Bezold spreading effect) – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Bezold and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke
• Biefeld–Brown effect – Paul Alfred Biefeld and Thomas Townsend Brown
• Biginelli reaction – Pietro Biginelli
• Biot number – Jean-Baptiste Biot
• Biot–Savart law – Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart
• Birch reduction – Arthur John Birch
• Birkeland currents – Kristian Birkeland
• Bischler–Napieralski reaction – August Bischler and Bernard Napieralski
• Black's equation for electromigration – James R. Black (d. 2004) of Motorola
• Bloch wave – Felix Bloch
• Bloom filter – Burton Howard Bloom
• Bodenstein number – probably Max Bodenstein (1871–1942)
• Bohm sheath criterion – David Bohm
• Bohr effect – Christian Bohr
• Bohr magneton, model, radius – Niels Bohr
• Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
• Borel algebra, measure, set, space, summation, Borel's lemma, paradox – Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel
• Borel–Cantelli lemma – Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel and Francesco Paolo Cantelli
• Borel–Carathéodory theorem – Félix Édouard Justin Émile Borel and Constantin Carathéodory
• Born–Haber cycle – Max Born and Fritz Haber
• Born–Oppenheimer approximation – Max Born and Robert Oppenheimer
• Borodin–Hunsdiecker reaction – Alexander Borodin, Hienz Hunsdiecker, and Clare Hunsdiecker (née Dieckmann)
• Borrmann effect (a.k.a. Borrmann–Campbell effect) – Gerhard Borrman (and H. N. Campbell)
• Bortle Dark-Sky Scale – John E. Bortle
• Bose–Einstein condensate, effect, statistics – Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
• Boson – Satyendra Nath Bose
• Boyle's law (a.k.a. Boyle–Mariotte law) – Robert Boyle (and Edme Mariotte)
• Brackett line/series – Frederick Sumner Brackett
• Bradford's law (of scattering) – Samuel C. Bradford
• Braess's paradox – Dietrich Braess
• Bragg angle, Bragg's law, Bragg plane – William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg
• Bragg diffraction – William Lawrence Bragg
• Brans–Dicke theory – Carl H. Brans and Robert H. Dicke
• Bravais lattice – Auguste Bravais
• Bravais–Miller indices (a.k.a. Miller–Bravais indices) – Auguste Bravais and William Hallowes Miller
• Brayton cycle – George B. Brayton
• Bredt's rule – Julius Bredt
• Brewster's angle, law – David Brewster
• Brillouin zone – Léon Brillouin
• Brinkman number – Hendrik C. Brinkman
• Brook rearrangement – Adrian Gibbs Brook
• Brooks's law (of software development) – Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.
• Brownian motion – Robert Brown
• Bucherer reaction – Hans Theodor Bucherer
• Büchi automata – Julius Richard Büchi
• Buck oscillator (a.k.a. Royer oscillator) – ? (or George H. Royer)
• Buckingham π theorem – Edgar Buckingham (and Aimé Vaschy)
• Burali-Forti paradox – Cesare Burali-Forti
• Bürgi–Dunitz angle – Hans-Beat Bürgi and Jack David Dunitz