H K Firodia awards

HK Firodia Award
Category	Science and Technology (Individual)
Instituted	1996
First awarded	1996
Last awarded	2014
Total awarded	40
Awarded by	HK Firodia Foundation
Cash award	Rs 2.00 L & Rs 1.00L

H K Firodia awards for excellence in Science & Technology are given annually by the H K Firodia foundation. The awards recognize achievements by Indian scientists in any field of science, and aim to promote a scientic spirit among Indians, especially the youth of India. Initiated in the year 1996, the awards carry forth HK's belief in developing world class technology through indigenous efforts and self-reliance and achieving excellence. He always valued the spirit of human enterprise.

The awards are given at a ceremony in Pune, at hands of eminent chief guests such as Kapil Sibal, Mukesh Ambani, Verghese Kurien.

For the year 2009 the award recipients are Professor Yash Pal for his contribution to education & communication technology and ISRO scientist Dr.Mylswamy Annadurai M.Annadurai-project director of first Indian moon mission Chandrayan-1. The awards are foremost in this field and a commendable initiative by industrialist Arun Firodia.

There are 2 awards every year: Award I: The main award is given to a person in recognition of his lifetime achievement and for his original contribution to the field of science & technology

Award II: The second award is given to young and promising innovators, scientist and technologists who are also original contributors

The Awards are given to any Indian citizen who has made original and outstanding contribution and done world class work in the field of science & technology and distinguished himself; the excellence may relate to any field of scientific endeavor from agriculture, engineering, medical sciences to space and environmental sciences. The Awards are meant to inspire the youth of the country to develop scientific spirit through creativity and innovations; and have become well known amongst the scientific community with national stature and prestige.

List of Awardees

Year	Name	Subject
1996	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	Engineering & Space
1996	Vijay P. Bhatkar	Computer Science
1997	C. N. R. Rao	Chemistry
1997	Anil Kakodkar	Nuclear
1998	Rajagopala Chidambaram	Nuclear
1998	S. K. Sikka	Nuclear
1999	Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan	Engineering & Space
1999	Paul Ratnasamy	Chemistry
1999	Man Mohan Sharma	Chemistry
2000	Raghunath Anant Mashelkar	Engineering & Space
2000	D. D. Bhawalkar	Nuclear
2001	Govind Swarup	Astronomy & Astrophysics
2001	Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal	Engineering & Space
2002	M. S. Valiathan	Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2002	Ashok Jhunjhunwala	Computer Science
2003	Prakash Narain Tandon	Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2003	Padmanabhan Balaram	Chemistry
2004	Obaid Siddiqi	Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2004	T. S. Prahlad	Engineering & Space
2005	M. S. Swaminathan	Agriculture
2005	G. Madhavan Nair	Engineering & Space
2005	Ashoke Sen	Mathematics
2006	Jayant Narlikar	Astronomy & Astrophysics
2006	Shivram Bhoje	Nuclear
2007	Madhav Gadgil	Ecology
2007	Samir K. Brahmachari	Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2008	Raghavendra Gadagkar	Ecology
2008	C. S. Seshadri	Mathematics
2009	Yash Pal	Physics
2009	Mylswamy Annadurai	Engineering & Space
2010	Govardhan Mehta	Chemistry
2010	Ajay K. Sood	Physics
2011	Roddam Narasimha	Engineering & Space
2011	Manindra Agrawal	Mathematics
2012	T. V. Ramakrishnan	Physics
2012	K. VijayRaghavan	Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2013	Dipankar Das Sarma	Nano Technology
2013	M. S. Narasimhan	Mathematics
2014	Maharaj Kishan Bhan	Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
2014	Devang Khakar	Chemistry