Prof. Israel Finkelstein holds the Jacob M. Alkow Chair in the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University.
Professor Graeme Barker, FBA, has been an enormously important figure in both European and world archaeology since the 1970s.
Peter Brook, born in London, on March 21, 1925, is the founder and director of the International Center for Theatre Creations in Paris, France.
C.N.R. Rao is the Linus Pauling Research Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India.
George Whitesides is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University.
Robert Langer is the Kenneth L. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.