Categories - Science

  1. Beebe and Barton Set a Diving Record in a Bathysphere
  2. Behring Discovers the Diphtheria Antitoxin
  3. Bell Discovers Pulsars, the Key to Neutron Stars
  4. Bell Labs Develops Photovoltaic Cell
  5. Bell Labs Introduces Electronically Amplified Hearing Aids
  6. Bell Telephone Scientists Develop the Photovoltaic Cell
  7. Benedictus Develops Laminated Glass
  8. Benjamin Banneker
  9. Benjamin Franklin
  10. Benjamin Robins
  11. Berg, Gilbert, and Sanger Develop Techniques for Genetic Engineering
  12. Berger Develops the Electroencephalogram (EEG)
  13. Bernardo Alberto Houssay
  14. Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt
  15. The Bernoulli Family
  16. Berry Publishes The Unsettling of America
  17. Bertrand Russell
  18. Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
  19. Bingham Discovers an Inca City in the Peruvian Jungle
  20. Birdseye Develops Freezing as a Way of Preserving Foods
  21. Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
  22. Bjerknes Discovers Fronts in Atmospheric Circulation
  23. Blaise Pascal
  24. Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
  25. Blériot Makes the First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel
  26. Boas Publishes The Mind of Primitive Man
  27. Bocage Devises Theory of Tomography
  28. Bohr Writes a Trilogy on Atomic and Molecular Structure
  29. Bookchin Publishes Crisis in Our Cities
  30. Bookchin Warns of Synthetic Hazards
  31. Borlaug Begins Work on High-Yield Wheat
  32. Boule Reconstructs the First Neanderthal Skeleton
  33. Bourbaki Circle Publishes Éléments de mathématique
  34. The Bourbaki Group Publishes Éléments de mathématique
  35. Bourlag Receives the Nobel Prize for Work on World Hunger
  36. Boyd Defines Human Races by Blood Groups
  37. Brandenberger Invents Cellophane
  38. Britain Announces Mad Cow Disease Has Infected Humans
  39. The British Antarctic Survey Confirms the First Known Hole in the Ozone Layer
  40. Brouwer Develops Intuitionist Foundations of Mathematics
  41. Brower Forms Friends of the Earth
  42. Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
  43. Bubble Memory Devices Are Created for Use in Computers
  44. Burton Introduces Thermal Cracking for Refining Petroleum
  45. Burton’s Thermal Cracking Process Improves Gasoline Production
  46. Bush Builds First Differential Analyzer
  47. Bush Builds the First Differential Analyzer
  48. Callendar Connects Industry with Carbon Dioxide Increases
  49. Calmette and Guérin Develop the Tuberculosis Vaccine BCG
  50. Calvin Wins the Nobel Prize for His Work on Photosynthesis