Edmund Hlawka is a leading number theorist whose work has had a lasting influence on modern number theory and other branches of mathematics. He has contributed to diophantine approximation, the geometry of numbers, uniform distributions, analytic number theory, discrete geometry, convexity, numerical integration, inequalities, differential equations and gas dynamics. Of particular importance are his results in the geometry of numbers (especially the Minkowski-Hlawka theorem) and uniform distribution.  He is a Member of EAS.

The investigations carried out by I.M. Khalatnikov in the field of cosmology and relativistic astrophysics are particularly noteworthy. The work on many years on the problem of singularity in the general relativity theory has brought about the discovery of a new type of oscillatory behaviour of relativistic cosmological models in the vicinity of the time singularity. This type of singularity has proved to be of a most general character and has promonted construction of the general cosmological solution of the Einstein equations with the time singularity. These results have been confirmed by the works of S. Hawkin and R. Penrose. This series of works also involves development of original qualitative methods of investigating the evolution of the Universe with dissipative processed taken into account and also the exact solution of the problem of stochastic properties of the evolution of homogeneous models of the Universe (chaos in cosmology). Dr. Khalatnikov is Director of the the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is a Member of EAS.

Dr. Fauci has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how the AIDS virus destroys the body's defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections. He also has delineated the mechanisms of induction of HIV expression by endogenous cytokines. Furthermore, he has been instrumental in developing strategies for the therapy and immune reconstitution of patients with this serious disease, as well as for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection.  Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is Director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  He serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals; as an editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine; and as author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,000 scientific publications, including several textbooks. He is a Member of EAS

Dr. Pileni is Professor of the University of P&M Curie, Paris, France. She made numerous fundamental contributions to nanotechnologies. Her  group  pioneered in the fabrication of nanocrystals in colloidal solutions that may have many fundamental  industrial applications. She is a Member of EAS.