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Badarayana
Author of the Brahmasutras who is believed to have lived in the first or second century A.D.

Ian Barbour
American professor of physics and religion who sees consonance between theology and the sciences. He is the author of numerous works on the meeting-point of science and religion ranging from Issues in Science and Religion (1966) to Religion in an Age of Science (1990).

John Stewart Bell
Quantum physicist famous for his Bell's Theorem, a framework for experiments to determine whether or not classical or quantum descriptions are more accurate with respect to quantum phenomena. This framework was first introduced in 1964.

David Berlinski
Author of two best-selling books on the history and philosophy of mathematics, A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm.

Jeremy Bernstein
Physicist and critic of Fritjof Capra's fusion of Eastern mysticism and modern physics.

William Blake
Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet and artist. His works include Songs of Innocence and Jerusalem.

Boethius
Roman philosopher (c.480-c.526) who wrote his famous Consolations of Philosophy while in prison awaiting execution. He is known for his classic definition of eternity as "the utter and complete possession of life without end in one simultaneous act."

David Bohm
British quantum physicist who rejects the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory. He has propounded a hidden variables theory in which particles are guided by pilot waves.

Niels Bohr
Bohr (1885-1962) is the originator of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory. He received a Nobel Prize in 1922 for his contributions to atomic theory and nuclear physics. He held that seemingly contradictory phenomena at the quantum level are actually complementary.

Hermann Bondi
A critic of the Big Bang Theory, he (along with Thomas Gold) propounded a Steady State view of the expanding universe in a 1948 monograph published by the Royal Astronomical Society.

Max Born
Born (1882-1970) was Director of the Physics Institute at Gottingen University in Germany and later a professor at the University of Chicago. He is one of the pioneers of quantum theory and Heisenberg was initially one of his assistants at the Institute. Along with Pascual Jordan, Born extended Heiseberg's ideas into what was called matrix mechanics.

F.H. Bradley
Bradley (1846-1924), a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, has been called the greatest British philosopher between John Stuart Mill and Bertrand Russell. He is the best-known British proponent of the philosophy of Idealism.

David Braine
Contemporary British analytic philosopher who has authored monumental treatises on the human soul and on time, The Human Person: Animal and Spirit and The Reality of Time and the Existence of God.

C.D. Broad
Broad (1887-1971) was a Cambridge philosopher who authored influential books in the areas of science, mind, ethics and psychical research.

Louis de Broglie
French aristocrat who became one of the many colorful players in the early days of quantum theory. He first pointed out that light could act both as particle and wave. His alternative to the Copenhagen view was supported by Albert Einstein.

Gautama Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, a warrior prince born in northern India circa 563 B.C., became known as the Buddha or Enlightened One after fifty days of meditation under a bodhi tree on the meaning of life. The Buddha's disciples established his philosophy as one of the major world religions.

David Burrell
Professor of philosophy at Notre Dame University who is a prolific writer on the philosophy of God and on Jewish, Christian and Islamic thinkers.