This award is presented annually to scientists worldwide as a tribute to their lifelong accomplishments by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany.

[3] A fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Institute of Chemists, he has also been a foreign member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) [4] and listed in Who's Who in the World.

[3] Hosmane was born in Gokarna, Uttar Kannada district, Karnataka state, India, in 1948,[3] to a Havyaka Brahmin family.

Hosmane earned his high school diploma (SSLC) from Bhadrakali High School, Gokarna in 1964, and soon after, went to Dr. A. V. Baliga college, Kumta for his college studies, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with Botany as a minor.

[1] He then obtained a Ph.D. degree in Organometallic/Inorganic Chemistry on 'Some reactions of stannic chloride with silicon hydrides and some novel group IV derivatives of mercury' [5] in 1974 from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.