List of craters on Mercury
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Crater	Diameter ( km )	Approval Year	Eponym	Ref

Bach	214.29	1976	Johann Sebastian Bach , German composer	WGPSN

Balagtas	104	1976	Francisco Balagtas , Filipino poet	WGPSN

Balanchine	38	2012	George Balanchine , Russian choreographer	WGPSN

Baranauskas	36	2015	Antanas Baranauskas , Lithuanian poet	WGPSN

Barney	29	2013	Natalie Clifford Barney , American-French playwright , poet , and novelist	WGPSN

Balzac	67	1976	Honoré de Balzac , French writer	WGPSN

Bartók	118	1979	Béla Bartók , Hungarian composer	WGPSN

Barma	123	1982	Postnik Barma Yakovlev , Russian architect	WGPSN

Bashō	75	1979	Matsuo Bashō , Japanese poet	WGPSN

Bechet	17.6	2013	Sidney Bechet , American jazz musician and composer	WGPSN

Beckett	60	2008	Clarice Beckett , Australian painter	WGPSN

Beethoven	630	1976	Ludwig van Beethoven , German composer	WGPSN

Bek	32	2010	Bek , Egyptian sculptor	WGPSN

Belinskij	70.67	1985	Vissarion Belinsky , Russian literary critic	WGPSN

Bello	139	1976	Andrés Bello , Venezuelan writer	WGPSN

Benoit	40	2009	Rigaud Benoit , Haitian artist	WGPSN

Berkel	23	2009	Sabri Berkel , Turkish painter	WGPSN

Berlioz	31.44	2013	Hector Berlioz , French composer	WGPSN

Bernini	168.13	1976	Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Italian , sculptor	WGPSN

Bjornson	75.93	1985	Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian poet	WGPSN

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An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet , moon , or other solid body in the Solar System or elsewhere , formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body . In contrast to volcanic craters , which result from explosion or internal collapse , impact craters typically have raised rims and floors that are lower in elevation than the surrounding terrain . Impact craters range from small , simple , bowl-shaped depressions to large , complex , multi-ringed impact basins . Meteor Crater is a well-known example of a small impact crater on Earth . Impact craters are the dominant geographic features on many solid Solar System objects including the Moon , Mercury , Callisto , Ganymede and most small moons and asteroids . On other planets and moons that experience more active surface geological processes , such as Earth , Venus , Mars , Europa , Io and Titan , visible impact craters are less common because they become eroded , buried or transformed by tectonics over time . Where such processes have destroyed most of the original crater topography , the terms impact structure or astrobleme are more commonly used . In early literature , before the significance of impact cratering was widely recognised , the terms cryptoexplosion or cryptovolcanic structure were often used to describe what are now recognised as impact-related features on Earth . The cratering records of very old surfaces , such as Mercury , the Moon , and the southern highlands of Mars , record a period of intense early bombardment in the inner Solar System around 3.9 billion years ago . The rate of crater production on Earth has since been considerably lower , but it is appreciable nonetheless ; Earth experiences from one to three impacts large enough to produce a 20-kilometre-diameter ( 12 mi ) crater about once every million years on average . This indicates that there should be far more relatively young craters on the planet than have been discovered so far . The cratering rate in the inner solar system fluctuates as a consequence of collisions in the asteroid belt that create a family of fragments that are often sent cascading into the inner solar system .
In geometry , a diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle . It can also be defined as the longest chord of the circle . Both definitions are also valid for the diameter of a sphere . In more modern usage , the length of a diameter is also called the diameter . In this sense one speaks of the diameter rather than a diameter ( which refers to the line segment itself ) , because all diameters of a circle or sphere have the same length , this being twice the radius r .
An eponym is a person , place , or thing after whom or after which something is named , or believed to be named , or the thing so named . The adjectives derived from eponym include eponymous and eponymic . For example , Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era , and the eponymous founder of the Ford Motor Company refers to Henry Ford , and Ford and Elizabethan England are both eponyms .
Bach is a double-ringed impact basin within in the Bach quadrangle of Mercury . It was named by the IAU in 1976 .
Johann Sebastian Bach [ a ] ( 31 March [ O.S . 21 March ] 1685 - 28 July 1750 ) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period . He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations , and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor . Since the 19th-century Bach Revival he has generally been regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time . The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach . After being orphaned at age 10 , he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph , after which he continued his musical formation in Lüneburg . From 1703 he was back in Thuringia , working as a musician for Protestant churches in Arnstadt and Mühlhausen and , for longer stretches of time , at courts in Weimar , where he expanded his organ repertory , and Köthen , where he was mostly engaged with chamber music . From 1723 he was employed as Thomaskantor ( cantor at St. Thomas ) in Leipzig . He composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city , and for its university 's student ensemble Collegium Musicum . From 1726 he published some of his keyboard and organ music . In Leipzig , as had happened during some of his earlier positions , he had difficult relations with his employer , a situation that was little remedied when he was granted the title of court composer by his sovereign , Augustus , Elector of Saxony and King of Poland , in 1736 . In the last decades of his life he reworked and extended many of his earlier compositions .
Balagtas is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 98 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976 . Balagtas is named for the Filipino writer Francisco Balagtas , who lived from 1788 to 1862 . Kenkō crater is to the west of Balagtas , and Hitomaro is to the north .
Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz ( April 2 , 1788 - February 20 , 1862 ) , commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltazar , was a prominent Filipino poet during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines . He is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on Filipino literature . The famous epic Florante at Laura is regarded as his defining work . The surname Baltazar , sometimes misconstrued as a pen name , was a legal surname Balagtas adopted after the 1849 edict of Governor-General Narciso Claveria y Zaldua , which mandated that the native population adopt standard Spanish surnames instead of native ones . His surname is also sometimes given as Balagtas Baltazar when instead he used one or the other but not both at the same time . His mentor was José de la Cruz , otherwise known as Joseng Sisiw .
Filipinos ( Filipino : Mga Pilipino ) are the people who are native to or citizens of the country of the Philippines . Filipinos come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups . Currently , there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups , each with its own language , identity , culture and history . The number of individual languages listed for Philippines is 185 . Of these , 183 are living and 2 are extinct . Of the living languages , 175 are indigenous and 8 are non-indigenous . Furthermore , 39 are institutional , 67 are developing , 38 are vigorous , 28 are in trouble , and 11 are dying .
Balanchine is a crater on the planet Mercury . It possesses a ray system of slightly bluish rays . These rays inspired the name of the crater due to their similarity to the tutu in George Balanchine 's Serenade . Balanchine lies in the northeast portion of the Caloris Basin . To the northeast of Balanchine is Nervo crater , and to the southeast is March .
George Balanchine ( /ˈbælən ( t ) ʃiːn , ˌbælənˈ ( t ) ʃiːn/ ; born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze ; Georgian : გიორგი მელიტონის ძე ბალანჩივაძე ; January 22 , 1904 ( O. S. January 9 ) - April 30 , 1983 ) was an American ballet choreographer who was one of the most influential 20th-century choreographers . Styled as the father of American ballet , he co-founded the New York City Ballet and remained its Artistic Director for more than 35 years . Born in St. Petersburg , Balanchine took the standards and technique from his time at the Imperial Ballet School and fused it with other schools of movement that he had adopted during his tenure on Broadway and in Hollywood , creating his signature neoclassical style . He was a choreographer known for his musicality ; he expressed music with dance and worked extensively with leading composers of his time like Igor Stravinsky . Balanchine was invited to America in 1933 by a young arts patron named Lincoln Kirstein , and together they founded the School of American Ballet . Along with Kirstein , Balanchine also co-founded the New York City Ballet ( NYCB ) .
Russians ( Russian : русские , tr . russkiye , IPA : ˈruskʲɪje ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to European Russia and other parts of Eastern Europe ( some territories of the former Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire ) ; they are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe . The majority of ethnic Russians live in the Russian Federation , but notable minorities exist in other former Soviet states such as Belarus , Kazakhstan , Moldova , Ukraine and the Baltic states . A large Russian diaspora ( sometimes including Russophones , i.e . Russian-speaking non-Russians ) has developed all over the world , with notable numbers in the United States , Germany , Brazil , and Canada . The culture of the ethnic Russian people has a long tradition and it is a foundation for the modern culture of the whole of Russia . The Russian language originally was the language of ethnic Russians . They are historically Orthodox Christians by religion . The ethnic Russians formed from East Slavic tribes and their cultural ancestry is based in Kievan Rus ' . The Russian word for ethnic Russians is derived from the people of Rus ' and the territory of Rus ' . The Russians share many historical and cultural traits with other European peoples , and especially with other East Slavic ethnic groups , specifically Belarusians and Ukrainians . Many ethnic groups had a common history within the former Soviet Union and Russian Empire , which was influential in the spreading of Russian culture and language .
Antanas Baranauskas ( Latin : Antonius Baranovski , Polish : Antoni Baranowski ; January 17 , 1835 in Anykščiai - November 26 , 1902 ) was a Lithuanian poet , mathematician and Catholic bishop of Sejny . Baranauskas is best known as the author of the Lithuanian poem Anykščių šilelis . He used various pseudonyms , including A.B. , Bangputys , Jurksztas Smalaūsis , Jurkštas Smalaūsis , and Baronas . He also wrote poetry in Polish .
Barney is a small crater on Mercury . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 2013 . Barney is named for the American-French playwright , poet , and novelist Natalie Clifford Barney .
Natalie Clifford Barney ( October 31 , 1876 - February 2 , 1972 ) was an American playwright , poet and novelist who lived as an expatriate in Paris . Barney 's salon was held at her home at 20 rue Jacob in Paris 's Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world , including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation . She worked to promote writing by women and formed a Women 's Academy ( L'Académie des Femmes ) in response to the all-male French Academy while also giving support and inspiration to male writers from Remy de Gourmont to Truman Capote . She was openly lesbian and began publishing love poems to women under her own name as early as 1900 , considering scandal as the best way of getting rid of nuisances ( meaning heterosexual attention from young men ) . She wrote in both French and English . In her writings she supported feminism and pacifism . She opposed monogamy and had many overlapping long and short-term relationships , including on-and-off romances with poet Renée Vivien and dancer Armen Ohanian and a 50-year relationship with painter Romaine Brooks . Her life and love affairs served as inspiration for many novels , ranging from the salacious French bestseller Idylle Saphique to The Well of Loneliness , the most famous lesbian novel of the twentieth century .
Balzac is a crater on Mercury . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976 . Balzac is named for the French writer Honoré de Balzac , who lived from 1799 to 1850 .
Honoré de Balzac ( /ˈbælzæk/ BAL-zak , more commonly US : /ˈbɔːl-/ BAWL- , French : [ ɔnɔʁe d ( ə ) balzak ] ; born Honoré Balzac ; 20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850 ) was a French novelist and playwright . The novel sequence La Comédie humaine , which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life , is generally viewed as his magnum opus . Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society , Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature . He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters ; even his lesser characters are complex , morally ambiguous and fully human . Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well ; the city of Paris , a backdrop for much of his writing , takes on many human qualities . His writing influenced many famous writers , including the novelists Émile Zola , Charles Dickens , Gustave Flaubert , and Henry James , filmmaker François Truffaut as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx . Many of Balzac 's works have been made into films , and they continue to inspire other writers . An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child , Balzac had trouble adapting to the teaching style of his grammar school . His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business . When he finished school , Balzac was apprenticed in a law office , but he turned his back on the study of law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine . Before and during his career as a writer , he attempted to be a publisher , printer , businessman , critic , and politician ; he failed in all of these efforts . La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties , and includes scenes from his own experience .
Bartók is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 112 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1979 . Bartók is named for the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók , who lived from 1881 to 1945 .
Béla Viktor János Bartók ( /ˈbeɪlə ˈbɑːrtɒk/ ; Hungarian : Bartók Béla , pronounced [ ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ ] ; 25 March 1881 - 26 September 1945 ) was a Hungarian composer , pianist , and ethnomusicologist . He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century ; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary 's greatest composers ( Gillies 2001 ) . Through his collection and analytical study of folk music , he was one of the founders of comparative musicology , which later became ethnomusicology .
Barma is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 128 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1982 . Barma is named for the Russian architect Barma , who lived in the 16th century .
Postnik Yakovlev ( Постник Яковлев ) is most famous as one of the architects and builders of Saint Basil 's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow ( built between 1555 and 1560 , the other architect is Barma ) . Originally from Pskov , it is thought that he was nicknamed Barma ( Барма ) ( the mumbler ) , although it might be that his full name was , in fact , Ivan Yakovlevich Barma ; ( Postnik means Faster , a term used for several religious figures , including Patriarch John IV of Constantinople ) ; Barma might also be Yakovlev 's assistant . According to legend , Ivan the Terrible blinded Yakovlev so that he could never build anything so beautiful again . However , this is probably a myth , as Yakovlev , in cooperation with another master , Ivan ShirIai , designed the walls of the Kazan Kremlin and the Cathedral of the Annunciation [ ru ] in Kazan in 1561 and 1562 , just after the completion of St . Basil 's . He also designed the northeast chapel of St . Basil 's ( where Basil himself , the popular Basil Fool for Christ - Yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny - is buried ) , in 1588 , four years after Ivan 's death . According to several historians , Yakovlev also designed churches in Staritsa , Murom , Sviazhsk , and perhaps Vladimir , although others contend that this was another architect with a similar name .
Bashō is a crater on Mercury named after Matsuo Bashō , a 17th-century Japanese writer . Bashō crater is only 74.62 kilometers ( 46.37 mi ) in diameter , but is a prominent feature on Mercury 's surface , due to its bright rays . Photographs from NASA 's Mariner 10 and MESSENGER spacecraft show a curious halo of dark material around the crater .
Matsuo Bashō ( 松尾 芭蕉 , 1644-1694 ) , born 松尾 金作 , then Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa ( 松尾 忠右衛門 宗房 ) , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan . During his lifetime , Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form ; today , after centuries of commentary , he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku ( then called hokku ) . Matsuo Bashō 's poetry is internationally renowned ; and , in Japan , many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites . Although Bashō is justifiably famous in the West for his hokku , he himself believed his best work lay in leading and participating in renku . He is quoted as saying , Many of my followers can write hokku as well as I can . Where I show who I really am is in linking haikai verses . Bashō was introduced to poetry at a young age , and after integrating himself into the intellectual scene of Edo ( modern Tokyo ) he quickly became well known throughout Japan . He made a living as a teacher ; but then renounced the social , urban life of the literary circles and was inclined to wander throughout the country , heading west , east , and far into the northern wilderness to gain inspiration for his writing . His poems were influenced by his firsthand experience of the world around him , often encapsulating the feeling of a scene in a few simple elements .
Sidney Joseph Bechet ( May 14 , 1897 - May 14 , 1959 ) was an American jazz saxophonist , clarinetist , and composer . He was one of the first important soloists in jazz , beating trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months . His erratic temperament hampered his career , and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim .
Beckett is a pit-floored crater on Mercury , which was discovered in January 2008 during the first flyby of the planet by the MESSENGER spacecraft . Its floor is not smooth and displays a telephone or arc-shaped collapse feature , which is also called a central pit . The size of the pit is 35 × 7.5 km . Such a feature may have resulted from the collapse of a magma chamber underlying the central part of the crater . The collapse feature is an analog of Earth 's volcanic calderas .
Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett ( 21 March 1887 - 7 July 1935 ) was an Australian tonalist painter whose works are featured in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia , National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia .
Beethoven is a crater at latitude 20°S , longitude 124°W on Mercury . It is 643 km in diameter and was named after Ludwig van Beethoven . [ note 1 ] It is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System and the third largest on Mercury . Unlike many basins of similar size on the Moon , Beethoven is not multi-ringed . Remnant ejecta blankets around parts of the Beethoven are subdued in appearance and their margins poorly defined in places . The crater wall ( rim ) of Beethoven is buried by its ejecta blanket and by plains materials and is barely visible . The floor of the basin is covered with intermediate smooth plains material , which has the same reflectance as the exterior intermediate terrain . However , there is no wrinkle ridges or graben inside the basin like those in Caloris . Spudis and Prosser have suggested that Beethoven may possibly be late c3 in age or as old as early c2 , which means that it is older than the Caloris Basin . The depth of Beethoven is estimated to be 2.5 ± 0.7 km from the stereo derived digital elevation models based on Mariner 10 images of the planet . This is significantly less than the depth of lunar basins of the similar size indicating that Beethoven probably has relaxed from its post impact shape . There is also a broad topographic rise in the north-west margin of Beethoven .
Ludwig van Beethoven ( /ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪt ( h ) oʊvən/ ( listen ) ; German : [ ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːthoːfn̩ ] ( listen ) ; baptised 17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827 ) was a German composer and pianist . He was a crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music and is considered to be one of the greatest composers of all time . Beethoven was born in Bonn , the capital of the Electorate of Cologne , which was part of the Holy Roman Empire . His musical talent was obvious at an early age , and he was harshly and intensively taught by his father Johann van Beethoven , who thought this would enable him to become a child prodigy like Mozart . He was later taught by the composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe . At age 21 , he moved to Vienna and studied composition with Joseph Haydn . Beethoven then gained a reputation as a virtuoso pianist , and he was soon courted by Karl Alois , Prince Lichnowsky for compositions , which resulted in Opus 1 in 1795 . The piece was a great critical and commercial success and was followed by Symphony No . 1 in 1800 . This composition was distinguished by its frequent use of sforzandi , sudden shifts in tonal centers ( which were uncommon for traditional symphonic form ) , and the prominent , more independent use of wind instruments . In 1801 , he also gained fame for his six String Quartets and for the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus . During this period , his hearing began to deteriorate , but he continued to conduct , premiering his third and fifth symphonies in 1804 and 1808 , respectively .
Bek is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 32 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 2010 . Bek is named for the Egyptian sculptor Bek , who lived in the 14th century BCE .
Bek or Bak ( Egyptian for Servant ) was the first chief royal sculptor during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten . His father Men held the same position under Akhenaten 's father Amenhotep III ; his mother Roi was a woman from Heliopolis . Bek grew up in Heliopolis , an important cult centre of the sun god Ra . The young prince Amenhotep ( who became the pharaoh Akhenaten ) had a palace here , and it is likely that his religious views were formed in part by the Heliopolitan teachings . Bek followed his lord to Akhet-Aten , the city founded by Akhenaten . He oversaw the construction of the great temple statues of the king and the opening of the Aswan and Gebel es-Silsila stone quarries , from where the stone was transported . A stela found in Aswan , made around the 9th regnal year of Akhenaten shows Men and his son Bek with the pharaohs they serve . On the right side Men stands before the statue of Amenhotep III . The statue is very likely to be one of the colossi of the pharaoh that was made by Men . This side of the stela reflects the traditional artistic style of the 18th dynasty , and the only indication of the Amarna period is that the name Amenhotep is left out , instead of it the pharaoh 's throne name Nebmaatre is repeated , in order to avoid having to mention the god Amun whose cult was forbidden . On the left side of the stela Bek is shown before Akhenaten , who makes offerings to his god Aten ; according to the inscription the depicted scene is set in the Great Temple of the Aten . A typical feature of Amarna era pictures , the rays of Aten end in hands .
Belinskij ( sometimes Belinskii ) is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 70 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985 . Belinskij is named for the Russian journalist and critic Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky , who lived from 1811 to 1848 .
Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky ( Russian : Виссарион Григорьевич Белинский [ note 1 ] , tr . Vissarión Grigórʹyevich Belínskiy , IPA : [ vʲɪsərʲɪˈon grʲɪˈgorʲjɪvʲɪtɕ bʲɪˈlʲinskʲɪj ] ; June 11 [ O.S . May 30 ] 1811 - June 7 [ O.S . May 26 ] 1848 ) was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency . Belinsky played one of the key roles in the career of poet and publisher Nikolay Nekrasov and his popular magazine Sovremennik . He was the most influential of the Westernizers , especially among the younger generation . He worked primarily as a literary critic , because that area was less heavily censored than political pamphlets . He agreed with Slavophiles that society had precedence over individualism , but he insisted the society had to allow the expression of individual ideas and rights . He strongly opposed Slavophiles on the role of Orthodoxy , which he considered a retrograde force . He emphasized reason and knowledge , and attacked autocracy and theocracy .
Bello is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 129 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976 . Bello is named for the Venezuelan poet Andrés Bello , who lived from 1781 to 1865 .
Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López ( Spanish pronunciation : [ anˈdɾes ˈβeʝo ] ; November 29 , 1781 - October 15 , 1865 ) was a Venezuelan-Chilean humanist , diplomat , poet , legislator , philosopher , educator and philologist , whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture . Bello is featured on the old 2,000 Venezuelan bolívar and the 20,000 Chilean peso notes . There is also a decoration , the Venezuelan Order of Andrés Bello . In Caracas , where he was born , Andres Bello was Simón Bolívar 's teacher for a short period of time and participated in the process that led to Venezuelan independence . Being a diplomat for the new independent government that helped establish , he went with Luis López Méndez and Simón Bolívar on their first diplomatic mission to London , the city where he lived between 1810 and 1829 . In 1829 , Bello went with his family to Chile . He was hired by the Chilean government and made great works in the field of law and humanities . In Santiago he held positions as a senator and a professor , as well as directing several local newspapers . As a legislator , he was the main promoter and editor of the Chilean Civil Code , one of the most innovative and influential American legal works of his time . In 1842 , under his inspiration and with his decisive support , the University of Chile was created , an institution of which he became the first rector , staying in the post for more than two decades .
Benoit is a crater on Mercury . Its floor is quite unusual , with two mounds that have been suggested to be evidence of intrusive volcanic activity on Mercury .
Rigaud Benoit ( 1911-1986 ) had become one of the three or four most highly prized Haitian artists well before his death .
Berkel is a crater on the planet Mercury . It was approved by the IAU on July 9 , 2009 . It was named after the modernist painter Sabri Berkel . The crater contains dark material in its center and in a ring immediately surrounding it . Moreover , Berkel is surrounded by a blanket of bright ejecta and a system of bright rays . Other craters on Mercurys surface , such as Basho , also exhibit both bright rays and dark halos . In contrast , two neighboring craters have bright rays but lack dark halos . Berkel lies within the much larger and older crater Ellington , which is to the southeast of Derain .
Sabri Fetah Berkel ( 1907-1993 ) was a Turkish-Albanian modernist painter ; he was one of the most important painters and academic personalities of the last century in Turkey . Berkel was born in Skopje , where , in 1927 , he completed high school at a French lyceum . From 1927 to 1928 he studied at an Art School in Belgrade . From 1929-1935 he finished his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts , Florence . Sabri Fetahu Berkel visited his country Albania in 1982 where he met with his family and parents . Berkel died in Istanbul . In the honor of Turkish talented painter Sabri Berkel from Turkey , NASA decided to name the Berkel , or the well known print maker , and it is a complex crater that sits inside of the larger Ellington basin that indicates the presence of dark material at depth of its surface .
Louis-Hector Berlioz [ n 1 ] ( 11 December 1803 - 8 March 1869 ) was a French Romantic composer . His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy , choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ , his three operas Benvenuto Cellini , Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict , and works of hybrid genres such as the dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette and the dramatic legend La Damnation de Faust . The elder son of a provincial doctor , Berlioz was expected to follow his father into medicine , and he attended a Parisian medical college before defying his family by taking up music as a profession . His independence of mind and refusal to follow traditional rules and formulas put him at odds with the conservative musical establishment of Paris . He briefly moderated his style sufficiently to win France 's premier music prize , the Prix de Rome , in 1830 but he learned little from the academics of the Paris Conservatoire . Opinion was divided for many years between those who thought him an original genius and those who viewed his music as lacking in form and coherence . At the age of twenty-two Berlioz fell in love with the Irish Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson , and he pursued her obsessively until she finally accepted him seven years later . Their marriage was happy at first but eventually foundered . Harriet inspired his first major success , the Symphonie fantastique , in which an idealised depiction of her occurs throughout . Berlioz completed three operas , the first of which , Benvenuto Cellini , was an outright failure . The second , the huge epic Les Troyens ( The Trojans ) , was so large in scale that it was never staged in its entirety during his lifetime . His last opera , Béatrice et Bénédict - based on Shakespeare 's comedy Much Ado About Nothing - was a success at its premiere but did not enter the regular operatic repertoire .
Bernini is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 146 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1976 . Bernini is named for the Italian architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini , who lived from 1598 to 1680 .
Gian Lorenzo ( or Gianlorenzo ) Bernini ( /bɛərˈniːni/ , also US : /bərˈ-/ , Italian : [ ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni ] ; also Giovanni Lorenzo ; 7 December 1598 - 28 November 1680 ) was an Italian sculptor and architect . While a major figure in the world of architecture , he was , also and even more prominently , the leading sculptor of his age , credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture . As one scholar has commented , What Shakespeare is to drama , Bernini may be to sculpture : the first pan-European sculptor whose name is instantaneously identifiable with a particular manner and vision , and whose influence was inordinately powerful . In addition , he was a painter ( mostly small canvases in oil ) and a man of the theater : he wrote , directed and acted in plays ( mostly Carnival satires ) , for which he designed stage sets and theatrical machinery . He produced designs as well for a wide variety of decorative art objects including lamps , tables , mirrors , and even coaches . As architect and city planner , he designed secular buildings , churches , chapels , and public squares , as well as massive works combining both architecture and sculpture , especially elaborate public fountains and funerary monuments and a whole series of temporary structures ( in stucco and wood ) for funerals and festivals . His broad technical versatility , boundless compositional inventiveness and sheer skill in manipulating marble ensured that he would be considered a worthy successor of Michelangelo , far outshining other sculptors of his generation . His talent extended beyond the confines of sculpture to a consideration of the setting in which it would be situated ; his ability to synthesize sculpture , painting , and architecture into a coherent conceptual and visual whole has been termed by the late art historian Irving Lavin the unity of the visual arts .
Bjornson is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 75.93 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) in 1985 . Bjornson is named for the Norwegian playwright and poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , who lived from 1832 to 1910 .
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( /ˈbjɜːrnsən/ BYURN-sən , Norwegian : [ ˈbjø̂ːɳstjæːɳə ˈbjø̂ːɳsɔn ] ; 8 December 1832 - 26 April 1910 ) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to his noble , magnificent and versatile poetry , which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit , becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate . Bjørnson is considered to be one of The Four Greats ( De Fire Store ) among Norwegian writers , the others being Henrik Ibsen , Jonas Lie , and Alexander Kielland . Bjørnson is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem , Ja , vi elsker dette landet .