H. K. Firodia Awards Explained

H. K. Firodia Awards for excellence in science and technology are given annually by the H. K. Firodia Foundation. The awards were initiated in 1996 to recognize achievements by Indian scientists in any field of science. The awards are given at a ceremony in Pune.

There are two awards every year:

• Award I: The main award is given to a person in recognition of their lifetime achievement and for their contributions to the fields of science and technology.
• Award II: The second award is given to young and promising innovators, scientist and technologists.

List of awardees

Source: H K Firodia Foundation

Year	Name	Subject
1996		Engineering & Space
		Computer Science
1997		Chemistry
		Nuclear
1998		Nuclear
		Nuclear
1999		Engineering & Space
		Chemistry
		Chemistry
2000		Engineering & Space
		Nuclear
2001		Astronomy & Astrophysics
		Engineering & Space
2002		Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
		Computer Science
2003		Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
		Chemistry
2004		Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
		Engineering & Space
2005		Agriculture
		Engineering & Space
		Mathematics
2006		Astronomy & Astrophysics
		Nuclear
2007		Ecology
		Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2008		Ecology
		Mathematics
2009		Physics
		Engineering & Space
2010		Chemistry
		Physics
2011		Engineering & Space
		Mathematics
2012		Physics
		Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2013		Nano Technology
		Mathematics
2014		Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
		Chemistry
2015	Baldev Raj	Nuclear
	Krishna N. Ganesh	Chemistry
2016	Sriram Ramaswamy	Physics
	Sanjeev Dhurandhar	Astrophysics
2017	A S Kiran Kumar[1]	Aeronautics
	Ashutosh Sharma	Nanotechnology
2018[2]	Sandip Trivedi	Theoretical physics
	Satyajit Mayor	Biology
2019	K. Sivan	Aerospace engineering
	Shekhar Mande	Structural and Computational Biology

See also

• List of general science and technology awards

External links

• • Web site: H. K. Firodia Foundation - Official website . H. K. Firodia Foundation . 2015 . October 31, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117165048/http://hkfmindq.org/index.html . November 17, 2015 . dead .

Notes and References

1. Web site: H. K. Firodia Awards 2017. H. K. Firodia Memorial Foundation. 1 May 2018. 2 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180502064723/http://hkfirodiaawards.org/current.html. dead.
2. Web site: Scientists honoured with HK Firodia awards in Pune. 2019-02-02. Hindustan Times. en. 2019-08-18.