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{{Infobox award
| name = H. K. Firodia Awards
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| subheader = Award for individual contributions to science and technology
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| sponsor = [[H. K. Firodia Foundation]]
| firstawarded = 1996
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| reward = {{INR|2}} [[lakh]]s and {{INR|1}} lakh
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| award1_type = Total awarded
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| website = {{Url|hkfirodiaawards.org}}
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'''H. K. Firodia Awards''' for excellence in science and technology are given annually by the [[Kinetic Engineering Limited|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 presented to an individual in recognition of their lifetime achievements and 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: [http://hkfirodiaawards.org/awards_2.html H K Firodia Foundation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234211/http://hkfirodiaawards.org/awards_2.html |date=2016-03-04 }}
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="0" width="100%"
! Year
! Name
! Subject
|-
|rowspan ="2"|1996 || [[A. P. J. Abdul Kalam]] || Engineering & Space
|-
|[[Vijay P. Bhatkar]] || Computer Science
|-
|rowspan ="2"|1997 || [[C. N. R. Rao]] || Chemistry
|-
| [[Anil Kakodkar]] || Nuclear
|-
|rowspan ="2"|1998 || [[Rajagopala Chidambaram]] || Nuclear
|-
|[[S. K. Sikka]] || Nuclear
|-
|rowspan ="3"| 1999 || [[Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan]] || Engineering & Space
|-
| [[Paul Ratnasamy]] || Chemistry
|-
| [[Man Mohan Sharma]] || Chemistry
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2000 || [[Raghunath Anant Mashelkar]] || Engineering & Space
|-
| [[D. D. Bhawalkar]] || Nuclear
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2001 || [[Govind Swarup]] || Astronomy & Astrophysics
|-
|[[Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal]] || Engineering & Space
|-
|rowspan = "2"|2002 || [[M. S. Valiathan]] || Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
|-
|[[Ashok Jhunjhunwala]] || Computer Science
|-
|rowspan = "2"|2003 || [[Prakash Narain Tandon]] || Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
|-
| [[Padmanabhan Balaram]] || Chemistry
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2004 || [[Obaid Siddiqi]] || Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
|-
|[[T. S. Prahlad]] || Engineering & Space
|-
|rowspan ="3"|2005 || [[M. S. Swaminathan]] || Agriculture
|-
|[[G. Madhavan Nair]] || Engineering & Space
|-
|[[Ashoke Sen]] || Mathematics
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2006 || [[Jayant Narlikar]] || Astronomy & Astrophysics
|-
|[[Shivram Bhoje]] || Nuclear
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2007 || [[Madhav Gadgil]] || Ecology
|-
|[[Samir K. Brahmachari]] || Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2008 || [[Raghavendra Gadagkar]] || Ecology
|-
| [[C. S. Seshadri]] || Mathematics
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2009 || [[Yash Pal]] || Physics
|-
| [[Mylswamy Annadurai]] || Engineering & Space
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2010 || [[Goverdhan Mehta]] || Chemistry
|-
| [[Ajay K. Sood]] || Physics
|-
|rowspan = "2"|2011 || [[Roddam Narasimha]] || Engineering & Space
|-
| [[Manindra Agrawal]] || Mathematics
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2012 || [[T. V. Ramakrishnan]] || Physics
|-
| [[K. Vijayraghavan]] || Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2013 || [[Dipankar Das Sarma]] || Nano Technology
|-
|[[M. S. Narasimhan]] || Mathematics
|-
|rowspan ="2"|2014 || [[Maharaj Kishan Bhan]] || Life Sciences, Medicine & Genomics
|-
|[[Devang Vipin Khakhar|Devang Khakar]] || Chemistry
|-
|rowspan = "2"|2015
|[[Baldev Raj]]
|Nuclear
|-
|[[Krishna N. Ganesh]]
|Chemistry
|-
|rowspan="2"|2016
|[[Sriram Ramaswamy]]
|Physics
|-
|[[Sanjeev Dhurandhar]]
|Astrophysics
|-
|rowspan="2"|2017<ref name="HKF2017" />
|[[A. S. Kiran Kumar]]<ref name= HKF2017>{{cite web|url=http://hkfirodiaawards.org/current.html|title=H. K. Firodia Awards 2017|publisher=H. K. Firodia Memorial Foundation|accessdate=1 May 2018|archive-date=2 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502064723/http://hkfirodiaawards.org/current.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|Aeronautics
|-
|[[Ashutosh Sharma (scientist)|Ashutosh Sharma]]
|Nanotechnology
|-
| rowspan="2" |2018<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/scientists-honoured-with-hk-firodia-awards-in-pune/story-OwH2AxolxVBOVXX88hBbjL.html|title=Scientists honoured with HK Firodia awards in Pune|date=2019-02-02|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-08-18}}</ref>
|[[Sandip Trivedi]]
|Theoretical physics
|-
|[[Satyajit Mayor]]
|Biology
|-
| rowspan="2" |2019
|[[K. Sivan]]
|Aerospace engineering
|-
|[[Shekhar Mande]]
|Structural and Computational Biology
|}

== See also ==

* [[List of general science and technology awards]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{Official}}
* {{cite web | url=http://hkfmindq.org/index.html | title=H. K. Firodia Foundation - Official website | publisher=H. K. Firodia Foundation | date=2015 | accessdate=October 31, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117165048/http://hkfmindq.org/index.html | archive-date=November 17, 2015 | url-status=dead }}

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[[Category:1996 establishments in India]]

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