Subcategories - Scientists
- Avery, Macleod, and McCarty Determine That DNA Carries Hereditary Information
- Avicenna
- Avicenna Writes His Canon of Medicine
- Baade Corrects an Error in the Cepheid Luminosity Scale
- Baekeland Invents Bakelite
- Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer Explain Superconductivity
- Barghoorn and Coworkers Find Amino Acids in 3-Billion-Year-Old Rocks
- Barghoorn and Tyler Discover 2-Billion-Year-Old Microfossils
- Barkla Discovers the Characteristic X Rays of the Elements
- Barnard Performs the First Human Heart Transplant
- Baron Florey
- Bateson and Punnett Observe Gene Linkage
- Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
- The Becquerel Family
- Becquerel Wins the Nobel Prize for the Discovery of Natural Radioactivity
- Bednorz and Müller Discover a High-Temperature Superconductor
- Beebe and Barton Set a Diving Record in a Bathysphere
- Bell Discovers Pulsars, the Key to Neutron Stars
- Bell Telephone Scientists Develop the Photovoltaic Cell
- Benedict Publishes Patterns of Culture
- Benjamin Banneker
- Berg, Gilbert, and Sanger Develop Techniques for Genetic Engineering
- Berger Develops the Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt
- The Bernoulli Family
- Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
- Bingham Discovers an Inca City in the Peruvian Jungle
- Birdseye Develops Freezing as a Way of Preserving Foods
- Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
- Bjerknes Discovers Fronts in Atmospheric Circulation
- Blaise Pascal
- Blalock Performs the First “Blue Baby” Operation
- Blériot Makes the First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel
- Boas Publishes The Mind of Primitive Man
- Bohr Writes a Trilogy on Atomic and Molecular Structure
- Boule Reconstructs the First Neanderthal Skeleton
- The Bourbaki Group Publishes Éléments de mathématique
- Boyd Defines Human Races by Blood Groups
- Brandenberger Invents Cellophane
- The British Antarctic Survey Confirms the First Known Hole in the Ozone Layer
- Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
- Bubble Memory Devices Are Created for Use in Computers
- Burton Introduces Thermal Cracking for Refining Petroleum
- Bush Builds the First Differential Analyzer
- Cai Lun Invents Paper
- Calmette and Guérin Develop the Tuberculosis Vaccine BCG
- Calvin Wins the Nobel Prize for His Work on Photosynthesis
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Carl Sagan
- Carlson Invents Xerography
