Singhvi (PhD Physics, IIT, Kanpur). He served as vice-president, International. Quaternary Union (INQUA) and as Vice President, Indian National Science Academy. He holds DST-SERB- Year of Science Chair Professorship at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, India. He was Av. Humboldt Fellow at the MPI für Kernphysik and Heidelberg U., Germany; Leverhulme Prof., Sheffield U., UK; DAAD Prof., Freiberg, Germany; and Ford Foundation Fellow, Oxford, UK and St. Louis, USA. His honours include: Krishnan and Decennial Medals, Ind. Geophys. Union; Natl. Mineral Award, India; Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Sci. (2004), Geol. Soc. of America; and K. Naha Medal, Ind. Nat. Sci. Acad; Goyal Prize, Kurukshetra U. and B. Sahni Centenary Medal, Indian Science Congress. A fellow of all Indian science academies and Hon. Lifetime Fellow of the Geol. Society London, he served on Sci. Prog. Comm. of UN's IYPE programme. He served as on the editorial boards of several international journals.

Singh (PhD, 1975, Indian Inst. of Science, Bangalore) is SERB-Distinguished Fellow, Dept. of Biophysics, All India Inst. of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. His honours include: Prof. DM Bose Memorial Lecture Award, Bose Inst. (2013); Bhramara’s YT Thathachari Award in Life Sciences (2012); Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award, INSA (2011); Goyal Prize in Life Sciences (2007); Prof. GN Ramachandran CSIR Gold Medal for Excellence in Biol. Sciences and Technology (2006); Prof. GN Ramachandran 60th Birthday Commemoration INSA Medal (2006); Sir JC Bose Memorial Award, Indian Science Congress (2006); KK Foundation Award for Sci. and Tech. (2001). He is a fellow of: Indian Natl. Science Acad. (INSA); Indian Acad. of Sciences; Natl. Acad. of Sciences, India; Biotec Research Soc. of India. He was Vice-President, INSA (2007-2009) and Editor-in-Chief, Proceedings of INSA (2011-13).

Shamsher Ali (PhD from Manchester University, UK, 1965) was President of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) (2004-12); Founder Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh Open University (1992-96); Founder Vice-Chancellor, Southeast University, Dhaka (2002-10); Professor of Physics, DU (Dhaka University: 1982-2006); served the Atomic Energy Commission (1961-1982); was Director, Atomic Energy Centre, Dhaka (1970-78); is now life-long Honorary Professor of Physics (DU), Professor Emeritus, Southeast University; Awards include Hari Prasanna Roy Gold Medal, DU; BAS Senior Gold Medal; Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah Gold Medal and TWNSO and ROCASA Award for Communicating Science to the Public [see Springer (Opportunities and Challenges for the Asia-Pacific Region, Editors: Tan Wee Hin, Leo, Subramaniam, R. (Eds.)];; elected to Honorary Fellowship (the highest award) of World Innovation Foundation (HQ in UK) founded by Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn Seaborg; Fellow, Islamic World Academy of Sciences and BAS;. Ali-Bodmer alpha-alpha potential(named after me and Bodmer) is of interest also to Astro Physics and is being used since 1966 in researches on nuclear cluster models and on nucleo synthesis in Supernova.