Desiraju obtained his BSc (1972) from the U. of Bombay and PhD (1976) from the U. of Illinois, Urbana. He was in the U.of Hyderabad between 1979 and 2009. In 2009, he joined the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He is a very well known structural chemist. His books on crystal engineering (Elsevier, 1989) and the weak hydrogen bond (OUP, 1999) are now standard works with 4000 and 6000 citations respectively. He co-authored a textbook in crystal engineering in 2011. He is on the past or present editorial advisory board of Angewandte Chemie, Chem. Communications and the J. of the American Chem. Soc.. He is a Past President of the International Union of Crystallography. He received the Humboldt Forschungspreis in 2000 and an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in Argentina in 2013. He received the ISA Medal for science of the University of Bologna in 2018. He is one of the most highly cited Indian scientists with an H-index of 101.

Hasan is Senior Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India. She obtained her Ph.D at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1983. Research from her group has contributed to an understanding of signaling mechanisms underlying maturation of neural circuits and their dysregulation in disease. Her memberships include the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Wadia is the Founding Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Bangalore, where he is the Infosys Foundation Homi Bhabha Chair Professor. He attended St. Mary's High School in Mumbai, graduated with a BSc from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, a MSc from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1973). He graduated with a PhD in physics from the City University of New York (1978) under the guidance of Bunji Sakita. From 1978-82 he was at the Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, where he was mentored by Yoichiro Nambu. In 1982 he joined the faculty of TIFR. His main scientific contribution is in elementary particle physics, quantum gravity and string theory. He is the recipient of the 1995 ICTP Prize and the 2004 TWAS Prize in Physics. He is a Fellow of all the Science Academies of India, a Distinguished Alumnus of St Xavier's College, Mumbai, a recipient of the J. C. Bose Fellowship of the Govt of India and a recipient of the Excellence Award of the TIFR Alumni Association.