Boileau, Nicolas. 1636-1711. French writer: Satires 1658.

Bordet, Jules. 1870-1961. Belgian bacteriologist, immunologist.

Borlaug, Norman. 1914-. US wheat scientist responsible for Green Revolution.

Born, Max. 1882-1970. German/British quantum physicist. Mathematics of atom behavior.

Bouchardon, Edme. 1698-1762. French Neoclassical sculptor. Equestrian Louis XV, Four Seasons Fountain, Cupid.

Boullée, Étienne. 1728-99. French grandiose Neoclassical architect.

Bourgeois, Léon. 1851-1925. French statesman. League of Nations.

Bourgeoisie. French merchant, craft class. Marxist term for those who do not live by the sale of their labour. Proletariat.

Bragg, William. 1862-1942. English discoverer of crystallography by x-ray diffraction. with son Lawrence (1890-1971).

Brahms, Johannes. 1833-97. German composer. “Romantic spirit controlled by a classical intellect”. Requiem 1868.

Brandt, Willy. 1913-92. Pragmatic Social Democrat Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74.

Branting, Karl. 1860-1925. Founder of Swedish Social Democratic Party, Prime Minister 1920-4.

Brattain, Walter. 1902-87. US transistor inventor.

Briand, Aristide. 1862-1932. French Prime Minister 1909~29, orator. “Separation of Church and State”, 1905. Advocated union of Europe. Kellogg-Briand.

Broglie, Louis de. 1892-1987. Italian/French physicist. Wave/particle theory.

Bruckner, Anton. 1824-96. Austrian Classical Romantic composer of symphonies, masses. Romantic Symphony 1874.

Buck, Pearl S. 1892-1973. US novelist of Chinese life. Good Earth 1931.

Buisson, Ferdinand. 1841-1932. French educator. Founded League of Human Rights 1898.

Bulge, Battle. 1945. Last German offensive on the Western Front at Ardennes. WWII.

Bulwer-Lytton. 1803-73. English novelist. Last Days of Pompeii, 1834. -“It was a dark and stormy night”.

Bunin, Ivan. 1870-1953. Russian poet/novelist. Village 1923.

Busoni, Ferruccio. 1866-1924. Italian neoclassical, anti-Romantic composer in Liszt tradition. Fantasia 1903-4.

Cadwaller. -689. Last Briton king; led people to Brittany.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. CND. 1958- Founded by Russell. Aldermaston Marches. The peace symbol, overlaid semaphore ND, was designed for the CND.

Camus, Albert. 1913-60. Existentialist absurd French writer: l’Étranger, Caligula.

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