A short history of nearly everything

Bachman’s warbler

bacteria; adaptive changes; antiquity of; below the Earth’s crust (SLiME); classification; culturing, difficulty of; discovery of; DNA, irradiated; durability; environments, extreme, as hosts to; epidemics; gangrene; harmful or infectious; identification of; in or on human body; mosquitoes and spread of; mutations; nitrogen conversion of; number of types; percentage of life; proliferation of; resistant to antibiotics; survival of, extraordinary

bacteriophages

Baldwin, Ralph B.

Ball, Philip

Banks, Sir Joseph

Barton, Otis

Basin and Ridge (McPhee)

Bastin, Edson

bathyscaphe

bathysphere

bdelloid rotifers

Beagle, voyage of

Becher, Johann

Becker, George

Becquerel, Henri

bed mites

Beebe, Charles William,

Bell, Alexander Graham

Bennett, Victoria

Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology

Bergstralh, Jay

Berners-Lee, Tim

Berzelius, J. J.

Betelgeuse

Bethe, Hans

Biddle, Wayne

Big Bang

Big Birth

Biology: The Science of Life (Wallace, King, amp; Sanders)

birds. See also extinction of species; specific species

Birds of Arabia (Meinertzhagen)

Black, Davidson

black holes

Blackett, Patrick

Blind Watchmaker, The (Dawkins)

Bodanis, David

Bogdanov, Igor and Grickha

Bohr, Niels

Bolzmann, Ludwig

Bonnichsen, Bill

Bose, S. N.

Bouguer, Pierre

Bowler, Jim

Boyle, Robert

Brace, C. Loring

Brand, Hennig

Brave New World (Huxley)

Briggs, Derek

Britain: geology, popularity of; learned societies; nitrous oxide, popularity of; plant collecting; sea exploration, HMS Challenger; transits of Venus expeditions

Brock, Thomas and Louise

Broom, Robert

Brown, Guy

Brown, Harrison

Brown, Robert

Brownian motion

Brunhes, Bernard

Bryce, David

Buckland, William

Buffon, Comte de (Leclerc)

C

Cadbury, Deborah

caissons

calculus

cancer

Cannon, Annie Jump

carbon

carbon dioxide; Dover, white cliffs, and; inflated levels in atmosphere; marine organisms and

Carolina parakeet

Cassini, Giovanni and Jacques

Caster, K. E.

Cavendish, Henry

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University

Cavendish, William

cells; ATP; brain; cancer; chromosomes in; communication between; death; discovery of; DNA and replication of; lifespan,; liver; microscopic examination, first; mitochondria; nucleus; number in a human being; protein in; replacement; sponge, rebuilding; structure and activity of; types, variety

Celsius, Anders

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Chadwick, James