Scientists

Francis Thomas ('Tom') Bacon

1904-1992
Scientist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Matthew Baillie

1761-1823
Anatomist
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Randal Baker

1900-1984
President of Royal Microscopical Society
Sitter in 2 portraits

Wilson Baker

1900-2002
Organic chemist
Sitter in 4 portraits

John Hutton Balfour

1808-1884
Botanist
Sitter in 3 portraits

Sir Joseph Banks, Bt

1743-1820
Explorer and botanist
Sitter associated with 35 portraits

Sir Frederick Grant Banting

1891-1941
Scientist, doctor and Nobel Prize winner; discoverer of insulin
Sitter in 6 portraits

Peter Barham

1950-
Physicist and pioneer of 'molecular gastronomy'
Sitter in 1 portrait

William Barlow

1845-1934
Amateur scientist and specialist in crystallography
Sitter in 1 portrait

Ernest William Barnes

1874-1953
Mathematician; scientist; theologian and bishop
Sitter in 8 portraits

William Bateson

1861-1926
Biologist
Sitter in 5 portraits

Sir Alan Battersby

1925-2018
Chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Franz Andreas Bauer

1758-1840
Botanist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford

1858-1940
Zoologist
Sitter in 8 portraits

David Bellamy

1933-2019
Botanist, writer and broadcaster
Sitter in 2 portraits

John Desmond Bernal

1901-1971
Scientist
Sitter in 6 portraits

Albert James Bernays

1823-1892
Chemist
Sitter associated with 2 portraits

Jons Jakob Berzelius

1779-1848
Swedish chemist
Sitter in 1 portrait

Anna McClean Bidder

1903-2001
Zoologist and university administrator
Sitter in 1 portrait

Sir James Whyte Black

1924-2010
Pharmacologist
Sitter in 3 portraits