Bion

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Bion may refer to:

• Bion (satellite), a series of Soviet satellites from the 1960s and 1970s
• Bion, Manche, a commune in France
• Bion, in physics, the bound state of two solitons
• Bions, hypothetical corpuscles of biological energy proposed by psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich

People with the given name Bion

• Bion of Smyrna, bucolic Greek poet (fl. 2nd century BC)
• Bion of Abdera, a Greek philosopher from the school of Democritus (fl. c. 4th century BC)
• Bion of Borysthenes, a popular Greek philosopher (325–250 BC)
• Bion Barnett, the founder of Barnett Bank, in Florida
• Bion Tsang, American cellist and professor

People with the surname Bion

• Nicholas Bion (1652–1733), French scientific instrument-maker
• Wilfred Bion, a British psychoanalyst

See also

• Bionic