She has been doing field work, mostly with baboons, in East Africa since 1963, including longitudinal studies at Amboseli National Park in Kenya since 1971. Her recent work includes studies at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, where she is curator of research and associate curator of primates. Altmann received her bachelor's degree in math at the University of Alberta and a 1970 MAT from Emory University before going to the University of Chicago, where she earned her PhD in behavioral sciences in 1979. Named associate professor in Chicago's Department of Ecology and Evolution in 1985, she became a full professor in 1989, and since 1991 she has chaired the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. In 1996 she received the Animal Behavior Exemplar Award.
Car is a specialist in microscopic simulation of materials and electronic structure theory.
His appointment begins May 1, 1999. Car, who received his 1971 doctoral degree from the Milan Institute of Technology, became assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1978 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York from 1981 to 1983 before being named professor at the International School for Advanced Studies, Italy, in 1984. Car and Parrinello also received the 1990 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize. At the University of Zurich, Graf earned his licentiatus philosophiae in 1969 and his doctor philosophiae in 1970 and became privatdozent in 1981. He joined the faculty of Basel University in 1987 and has served as department chair since 1991.