List of Systems Scientists - B

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• Per Bak (1948–2002) was a Danish theoretical physicist, to whom is attributed the development of the concept of self-organized criticality.
• Bela H. Banathy (1919–2003) was a Hungarian systems scientist, design scientist, educator, author and coordinator of many international systems research conferences.
• Béla A. Bánáthy (1946?) is an American systems scientist, who works at the International Systems Institute at the Saybrook Graduate School.
• Yaneer Bar-Yam (1959) is an American physicist, systems scientist and founding president of the New England Complex Systems Institute.
• Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields.
• Kenneth D. Bailey (1943) is an American sociologist, who worked in the field of research methods, systems theory and environmental demography and ecology.
• Stafford Beer (1926–2002) was a British management scientist, known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics.
• Harold Stephen Black (1898–1983) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927.
• Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) was a Russian physician, philosopher, economist, science fiction writer, and revolutionary.
• Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) was a British economist, educator, peace activist, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist, and interdisciplinary philosopher.
• Murray Bowen (1913–1990) was an American psychiatrist and pioneers of family therapy and systemic therapy.
• Valentino Braitenberg (1926) is German neurologist and cyberneticist and pioneer in embodied cognitive science.
• Richard Peirce Brent (1946) is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist who is known for Brent's method of root finding.
• Gerrit Broekstra (1941) is a Dutch scientist and professor of organizational behavior and systems sciences.
• Walter F. Buckley (1922–2006) was an American sociologist, and among the first to apply General systems theory to sociology.