Bion may refer to:

Science

Bion (satellite) The Bion satellites (russian: Бион), also named Biocosmos, is a series of Soviet (later Russian) biosatellites focused on space medicine. Bion space program Bion precursor flights and Bion flights The Soviet biosatellite program beg ...

, a series of Soviet satellites from the 1960s and 1970s * Bion, in physics, the bound state of two solitons * Bions, hypothetical corpuscles of biological energy proposed by psychoanalyst

Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich ( , ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, along with being a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several influential books, most ...

Places

Bion, Manche Bion () is a former commune in the Manche department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mortain-Bocage Mortain-Bocage () is a commune in the department of Manche, northwest ...

, a commune in France * Saint-Agnin-sur-Bion, a commune of southeastern France *

Revest-du-Bion Revest-du-Bion is a Communes of France, commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Departments of France, department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department References

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, a French commune near the Alps

People with the given name Bion

* Bion of Miletus, a Greek sculptor (6th -5th century BC) *

Bion of Smyrna Bion of Smyrna (; grc-gre, Βίων ὁ Σμυρναῖος, ''gen''.: Βίωνος) was a Greek bucolic poet. Life He was a native of the city of Smyrna and flourished about 100 BC. Most of his work is lost. There remain 17 fragments ...

, also known as Bion of Phlossa, bucolic Greek poet (fl. 2nd century BC) *

Bion of Abdera Bion of Abdera ( el, Βίων ὁ Ἀβδηρίτης, ''gen.'' Βίωνος) was a Greek mathematician of Abdera, Thrace, and a pupil of Democritus Democritus (; el, Δημόκριτος, ''Dēmókritos'', meaning "chosen of the people"; – ...

, a Greek philosopher from the school of Democritus (fl. c. 4th century BC) * Bion of Soli, an ancient Greek writer of history * *

Bion of Borysthenes Bion of Borysthenes ( el, Βίων Βορυσθενίτης, ''gen''.: Βίωνος; BC) was a Greek philosopher. After being sold into slavery, and then released, he moved to Athens, where he studied in almost every school of philosophy. I ...

, a popular Greek philosopher (325–250 BC) *

Bion Barnett Bion Hall Barnett (October 7, 1857 – October 30, 1958) was an American banker. In 1877 he co-founded Barnett Bank, known as ''"Florida's Bank"'', the largest in the U.S. state of Florida at the time of its acquisition by NationsBank in ...

, the founder of Barnett Bank, in Florida * Bion Tsang, American cellist and professor * Bion J. Arnold, 1861–1942, American electrical engineer

People with the surname Bion

* Louis-Eugène Bion (1807-1860), French sculptor *

Nicholas Bion ''The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments'' (french: Traité de la construction et des principaux usages des instrumens de mathématique) is a book by Nicholas Bion, first published in 1709. It was translated into English ...

(1652–1733), French scientific instrument-maker *

Wilfred Bion Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Early life and military service Bion was born in Ma ...

, a British psychoanalyst *

Anne-Sophie Bion Anne-Sophie Bion is a ''French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ...

, French film editor

Other uses

Bion (opera) ''Bion'' is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It takes the form of a ''comédie en vers mêlée de musique'' (an ''opéra comique'') in one act. It premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 27 December 1800. The libretto, by Fran ...

, an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul *

BionX BionX was a Canadian maker of electric motors for bicycles as well as bicycle retrofit kits, operating from 1998-2018, originally named EPS (Electric Propulsion SystemsMetroid Prime: Federation Force''