Surname B Collection

Niels Bohr, caricature
Niels Bohr (1885-1962). Caricature of the Danish physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, blowing orbiting electrons out of his pipe. Bohr won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922

Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher. Bruno was a supporter of the Copernican view that the Earth revolved around the Sun

Konstantin Buteyko, Soviet doctor
Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (1923-2003), Soviet medical doctor and researcher. In the 1950s, Buteyko, a Ukrainian, developed a theory on the effects of deep breathing (hyperventilation)

Gersh I. Budker, Soviet physicist
Gersh Itskovich Budker (1918-1977), Soviet physicist. Budker was a nuclear physicist who, in 1959, founded the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok, in Siberian Russia

Nikolai Basov, Soviet physicist
Nikolai Gennadiyevich Basov (1922-2001), Soviet physicist. Basov is primarily known for his work with Aleksandr Prokhorov on developing masers (amplified beams of microwaves)

Beritashvili and students, Tbilisi, 1962
Ivan Beritashvili (1885-1974, centre), Soviet physiologist, instructing students who are studying the brain of a laboratory animal

Konstantin Bykov, Soviet physiologist C014 / 0753
Konstantin Bykov (1886-1959). Portrait of the Soviet physiologist and academician Konstantin Bykov. Bykov was a member of USSR Academy of Sciences and USSR Academy of Medical Sciences

Thomas Scott Baldwin, US aviator
Thomas Scott Baldwin (1854-1923), US aviator and balloonist, at the wheel of the Red Devil aeroplane that he designed. Baldwin began his career as a circus performer

Karl Bulla, Russian photographer C014 / 0748
Karl Bulla (1855-1929). Portrait of the prominent Russian photographer Karl Karlovich Bulla (or Carl Oswald Bulla) standing next to his camera

Charles Babbage, caricature C015 / 6701
Charles Babbage (1791-1871). Caricature of the English mathematician Charles Babbage. Babbage is best known for his pioneering work on programmable computers

Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
Janos Bolyai (1802-1860), Hungarian mathematician. Bolyai worked on non-Euclidean geometry, publishing a ground-breaking appendix on the subject in 1832

Otto Bader, Soviet archaeologist
Otto Bader (lower left, 1903-1979), Soviet archaeologist, making notes at an archaeological dig in the Crimea area of Russia, on the shores of the Black Sea

Robert Boyle, caricature
Robert Boyle. Caricature of the Irish physicist and chemist Robert Boyle (1627-1691), pointing at his air pump. Boyle used this pump, which he made with the assistance of Robert Hooke in 1654

Rene Descartes and Isaac Beeckman. Historical engraving of the French mathematician & philosopher Rene Descartes (1596- 1650, centre)

Henri-Marie Blainville, French Naturalist
Henri-Marie Blainville. Portrait of the french naturalist Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville. De Blainville was a member of the French Academy of Sciences

Tycho Brahe statue, Copenhagen, Denmark C017 / 6988
Statue of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) outside of the University of Copenhagen Obsevatory, Denmark. Brahe is considered the greatest astronomical observer of the pre-telescopic era

Niels Bohr sculpture C017 / 6982
Sculpture of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). Bohr won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. He is best known for developing the quantum theory of electron orbitals

Adolf Bastian, German ethnologist C018 / 7043
Adolf Bastian (1826-1905). 1869 engraving of the German ethnologist and anthropologist Philipp Wilhelm Adolf Bastian. Bastian is best remembered for his contributions to the development of

Heinrich Barth, German explorer C018 / 7044
Heinrich Barth (1821-1865). 1869 engraving of the German explorer, archaeologist, philologist and geographer Heinrich Barth

Ernst von Bergmann, German surgeon C018 / 7105
Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907). 1889 engraving of the German surgeon Ernst von Bergmann. Bergmann was a pioneer of aseptic surgery

Alfred Brehm, German zoologist C018 / 7017
Alfred Brehm (1829-1884). 1870 engraving of the German zoologist, natural history writer and illustrator Alfred Edmund Brehm

Niels Bohr sculpture C017 / 6981
Sculpture of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). Bohr won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922. He is best known for developing the quantum theory of electron orbitals

Niels Bohr, Danish physicist
Niels Bohr (1885-1962). Bust of the Danish physicist Niels Bohr outside Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Bohr won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922

Robert Bigelow, US Aerospace entrepreneur
Robert Bigelow (born 1945). Portrait of the US aerospace and hotels entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow talking at the Bigelow Aerospace facilities, Las Vegas, USA

John Logie Baird, caricature
John Logie Baird (1888-1946). Caricature of the British electrical engineer, inventor and television pioneer John Logie Baird, sitting in an armchair and holding a TV remote control

Henry Walter Bates, British naturalist C016 / 5866
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892), British naturalist. Whilst on an expedition to South America with Alfred Wallace, Bates noted startling similarities between butterfly species

Sir Joseph Banks, English naturalist C016 / 5845
Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), English naturalist and botanist. Banks took part in Captain James Cooks first great voyage (1768-1771)

2012 European Figure Skating Championship C013 / 9292
2012 European Figure Skating Championship. Russias Vera Bazarova and Yury Larionov training before their performance at the 2011 European Figure Skating Championships in Sheffield, UK

World Athletics Championships, Korea C013 / 7865
World Athletics Championships. Russias Sergey Bakulin pouring water over himself during the 50 km race-walking event at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea

World Athletics Championships, Korea C013 / 7864
World Athletics Championships. Russias Sergey Bakulin on the ground after winning the gold medal in the 50 km race-walking event at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea

Henry Bessemer, British industrialist C013 / 7703
Henry Bessemer (1813-1898). 19th Century artwork by Leslie Ward ( Spy ) of the British industrialist Henry Bessemer. Bessemer was the inventor of the Bessemer process for making steel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, caricature C013 / 7592
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859). Caricature of the British civil engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with steam coming out of his hat

Giordano Bruno on trial. 2 of 3. Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher who supported the Copernican view that the Earth revolved around the Sun

Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism
Gautama Buddha (c.563-483 BC), Indian spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism. Born Prince Siddhartha Gautama, he spent time as an ascetic and hermit before turning to meditation

Jacques Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
Jacques Bernoulli (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician. Jacques, also known as Jacob, was the first of eight prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family

Leonid Brekhovskikh, Soviet oceanographer
Leonid Brekhovskikh (1917-2005), Soviet oceanographer, giving a lecture. Brekhovskikhs major work was on the study of acoustic waves underwater

Aksel Berg, Soviet engineer
Aksel Berg (1893-1979), Soviet engineer and cyberneticist, at his country house. Berg was of Finnish descent, but after the death of his father in 1904

Aksel Berg, Soviet admiral and engineer
Aksel Berg (1893-1979), Soviet admiral, engineer and cyberneticist. Berg was of Finnish descent, but after the death of his father in 1904

Fyodor Bredikhin, Russian astronomer
Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (1831-1904), Russian astronomer. Bredikhin worked in Moscow and then St Petersburg. He studied meteors and comet tails. A crater on the Moon is named after him

Ivan Beritashvili, Soviet physiologist
Ivan Beritashvili (1885-1974), Soviet physiologist, writing notes in his laboratory. Beritashvili founded physiology research in Georgia, and was a Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Alexander Butlerov, Russian chemist
Alexander Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-1886), Russian chemist. From 1857, Butlerov worked on the newly proposed model of chemical structure

Engraving of Charles Babbage, 1792-1871
Engraving of Charles Babbage, an English mathematician, born December 1792, died October 1871. In 1823 Babbage began work on the Difference Engine no.1, an early adding machine

Bogolyubov (right), Soviet physicist
Soviet nuclear physicists. At right, Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov (1909-1992), the Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR)

Bogolyubov and Keldysh, Soviet scientists
Soviet science administrators Keldysh (right) and Bogolyubov (left) attending the fifth session of one of the Supreme Soviets of the USSR in Moscow, Russia, on 18 December 1972

Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Roger Bacon (c.1214-1292), English natural philosopher and alchemist, in his tower observatory at his monastery in Oxford, England

Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist
Claude-Louis Berthollet (1748-1822), French doctor and chemist. Berthollet graduated in medicine, but by 1780 his work in the new science of chemistry led to his admission to the French Academy of

Jean-Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793), French astronomer and orator. Bailly was one of the leaders of the early part of the French Revolution (1789-1799), and was guillotined during the Reign of Terror

Baird demonstrating his television, 1920s
Baird demonstrating his television. Coloured photograph of the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird (1888-1946) operating one of his early television systems

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"Surname B: A Legacy of Brilliance and Innovation" From Niels Bohr's groundbreaking contributions to quantum mechanics to Giordano Bruno's revolutionary ideas in philosophy, the surname B has been associated with some of history's greatest minds. Gersh I. Budker, a Soviet physicist, furthered our understanding of particle accelerators, while Konstantin Buteyko made significant advancements in respiratory medicine. The lineage continues with Nikolai Basov, another Soviet physicist who played a pivotal role in developing laser technology. In 1962, Beritashvili and his students from Tbilisi showcased their scientific prowess and dedication to knowledge. Konstantin Bykov, a Soviet physiologist known for his research on the human body's intricate workings, left an indelible mark on the field. Thomas Scott Baldwin soared through the skies as a US aviator, pushing boundaries and inspiring future generations. Karl Bulla captured moments frozen in time as a Russian photographer; his lens immortalized countless stories within each frame. Charles Babbage revolutionized computing with his visionary ideas that laid the foundation for modern computers. Otto Bader delved into ancient civilizations as a Soviet archaeologist unearthing secrets buried beneath layers of time. And let us not forget Robert Boyle whose caricature reflects both his influential work in chemistry and his playful spirit. Surname B represents more than just letters; it embodies curiosity-driven exploration that transcends borders and disciplines. It symbolizes those who dared to challenge conventions and expand humanity's collective knowledge. With each new generation bearing this illustrious name comes an unwavering commitment to innovation—a legacy that will continue shaping our world for years to come.