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== B ==
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
Babinet's principle – Jacques Babinet
Babler–Dauben oxidation – James Babler and William Garfield Dauben
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 – Jack Edward Baldwin
Balmer line, series – Johann Jakob Balmer
Bamberger rearrangement – Eugen Bamberger
Bamford–Stevens reaction – William Randall Bamford and Thomas Stevens Stevens
Barkhausen effect – Heinrich Barkhausen
Barnett effect – Samuel Jackson Barnett
Barnum effect (a.k.a. Forer effect) – Phineas Taylor Barnum (and Bertram R. Forer)
Barton reaction – Derek Harold Richard Barton
Barton–McCombie deoxygenation – 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
Bauschinger effect – Johann Bauschinger
Bayes's theorem – 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) – 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 (a.k.a. Newcomb–Benford law) – Frank Albert Benford, Jr. (and Simon Newcomb)
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 – Carl Bergmann (anatomist)
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
Blandford–Znajek process – Roger D. Blandford and Roman L. Znajek
Blasius boundary layer, flow – Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius
Blazhko effect – Sergey Blazhko
Bloch electrons – Felix Bloch
Bloom filter – Burton Howard Bloom
Bodenstein number – Max Bodenstein
Bohm sheath criterion – David Bohm
Bohr effect – Christian Bohr
Bohr magneton, model, radius – Niels Bohr
Boltzmann constant – Ludwig Boltzmann
Bonnor–Ebert mass – William Bowen Bonnor and Rolf Ebert
Borel algebra, measure, set, space, summation, Borel's lemma, paradox – Émile Borel
Borel–Cantelli lemma – Émile Borel and Francesco Paolo Cantelli
Borel–Carathéodory theorem – 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 Herbert N. Campbell)
Bortle scale – John E. Bortle
Bose–Einstein condensate, effect, statistics – Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein
Boson – Satyendra Nath Bose
Boyer's law – Carl Benjamin Boyer
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
Breit–Wheeler process – Gregory Breit and John A. Wheeler
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 & Brown(ian) noise – Robert Brown
Bucherer reaction – Hans Theodor Bucherer
Büchi automata – Julius Richard Büchi
Buckingham π theorem – Edgar Buckingham
Burali-Forti paradox – Cesare Burali-Forti
Bürgi–Dunitz angle – Hans-Beat Bürgi and Jack David Dunitz