PETER BROWN Peter Robert Lamont Brown was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1935.

Since 1986, Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History at Princeton University. He earned his B.A. in History from Oxford University (1956) where he taught until 1975 as a Lecturer in Medieval History and University Reader in Late Roman and Byzantine Studies. He left Oxford to become Professor of Modern History and Head of the Department of History at Royal Holloway College in the University of London (1975-77), and subsequently left Britain to become Professor of Classics and History in the University of California at Berkeley (1978-86); since 1986 he has taught at Princeton University, where in 2000 he was awarded the Presidents Award for Distinguished Teaching. Peter Brown is a member of many distinguished academies and societies, and has received a large number of recognitions. He is the author of approximately a dozen major works, some of which are translated into various languages.

BRONISLAW BACZKO Bronislaw Baczko, n le 13 juin 1924 Varsovie, est citoyen polonais. Il est depuis 1989 professeur honoraire de lUniversit de Genve. Licence s lettres, Varsovie, 1953; doctorat s lettres, Varsovie, 1957. Assistant, puis professeur au Dpartement de philosophie de l'Universit de Varsovie, 1952-1968. Professeur associ la Facult des Lettres de Clermont-Ferrand, 1969-1973. Professeur extraordinaire dhistoire des mentalits et de lhistoire la Facult des Lettres de l'Universit de Genve, 1974-1977, puis professeur ordinaire de 1977 1989. Professeur invit au Collge de France en 1990. Membre de l'Institut international de philosophie, du comit de la Socit Jean-Jacques Rousseau et du Comit des rencontres internationales de Genve (RIG); membre tranger de lAcadmie des sciences de Turin. Docteur honoris causa, Universit des sciences humaines, Strasbourg, 1981et de lUniversit de Tours, 1999. Laurat du prix de la ville de Genve, 1999 et du Prix Jozef Tischner Cracovie, 2002. Il est lauteur dune douzaine de livres traduits dans de nombreuses langues et dune centaine darticles scientifiques.

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RUSSELL LANDE Russell Scott Lande, born in Jackson, Mississippi on 10 August 1951, is a US citizen and UK resident. Since 2007 Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London at Silwood Park Campus, he also holds a Professor II (20% appointment) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim; he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University and completed his Postdoctoral work from 1976 to 1978 at the University of Wisconsin. At the University of Chicago he became in 1978 an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biophysics and Theoretical Biology, in 1982 an Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolution and Louis Block Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution. From 1990 to 1999 he held the position of Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Oregon and from 1999 to 2007 in the Department of Biology at the University of California, San Diego. JOSEPH SILK Joseph Ivor Silk, born in London, England, on 3 December 1942, is a British and a U.S. citizen. Savilian Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Beecroft Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom since 1999, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of New College, Oxford. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Clare College, Cambridge, in 1963 and his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1968. Fellow of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1969, he was a Research Associate at Princeton University from 1969 to 1970 and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1975 to 1976. He was Assistant Professor of Astronomy from 1970 to 1973, Associate Professor of Astronomy from 1973 to 1978, then Professor of Astronomy from 1978 to 1999 and Professor of Physics from 1988 to 1999 at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a Chercheur Associ at the Institut dAstrophysique, Paris, from 1982 to 1983, in 1986, in 1987 and since 2000, as well as a Visiting Fellow of Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Canberra, in 1999. He holds honorary degrees from the Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon, the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris and has given more than 330 invited conference lectures, primarily on galaxy formation and cosmology. Joseph I. Silk is the author or co-author of more than 500 publications.
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