ERTL, GERHARD,
Former Director of the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany.
Research concentrates on the structure, dynamics and reactivity of surfaces in contact with gaseous or liquid phases, mainly single-crystal systems but also including clusters, colloids, thin layers as well as 'real' catalysts.

KNUTH, DONALD E.,
Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University, Department of Computer Science, U.S.
Prof. Knuth is best known for his ongoing multivolume series, The Art of Computer Programming, which played a critical role in establishing and defining Computer Science as a rigorous, intellectual discipline.

BARDOSSY, ANDRAS,
Head (Dept. of Hydrology and Geohydrology) and Director of the Institut für Wasserbau, Universitätsbereich Vaihingen, Stuttgart, Germany.
András Bárdossy has worked on Hydrology, Geohydrology, Water Resources Planning. In his work he used and developed advanced tools like Kriging, multi-objective optimisation and fuzzy-rule based accounting for uncertainty.

ARENDT, DETLEV.,
Molecular biologist and team leader at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany.
etlev's main interest lies in the evolution of the animal central nervous system (CNS). He has compared nervous system development in insects and vertebrates, and in 1994 revived the idea of "dorsoventral axis inversion".