Richard S Hamilton was born in 1943 in Ohio, USA. He is currently Davies Professor of Mathematics at the Columbia University, USA.

Demetrios Christodoulou was born in 1951 in Athens, Greece. He is currently Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the ETH, Zurich in Switzerland.

David L Donoho was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, USA and is currently Anne T and Robert M Bass Professor of the Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, USA.

Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.