resource scarcity. 2016, R&D100 Award, R&D Magazine, for Sustainable and Affordable Fluoride Removal (SAFR) treatment of groundwater. The R&D100 Awards, called the “Oscars of Industrial Innovation”, are an international annual competition and celebrate the 100 top technology advances of the past year. 2015, Leo Szilard Lectureship Award of the American Physical Society for "For applying physics to a variety of social problems and developing sustainable energy, environmental and public health technologies, as well as demonstrating how these could be scaled up, thus contributing to improved life for millions." 2015, Foreign fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) 2014, Inducted in National Inventors Hall of Fame 2013, Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water—Creativity category—team award 2013, Inducted in the US National Academy of Engineering 2013, Laureate (Economic Development), The Tech Awards, Team award for the Berkeley-Darfur Stove 2012, Lemelson-MIT Prize Award for Global Innovation 2012, Zayed Sustainability Prize Individual category 2011. European Inventor Award with Vikas Garud, European Patent Office, for UV water disinfection device 2009, The 15th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on the environment 2007, Breakthrough Award by Popular Mechanics—for Berkeley-Darfur Stove 2004. Laureate (Health), The Tech Awards, for UVWaterworks 2001, Fellow of the American Physical Society 1996, "Best of What's New" Award, Popular Science magazine, for UV Waterworks 1996, Discover Award, Discover magazine for UVWaterworks 1991, Pew Fellowship in Conservation and the Environment, The Pew Charitable Trusts References External links Gadgil's Research Lab website Personal Website Courage: Ashok Gadgil. Short biography from MIT Press. Text adapted from Inventing Modern America.'' Prototype Online: Inventive Voices podcast featuring a two-part interview with Ashok Gadgil - From the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation website. Potential Energy Website 1950 births Living people Indian emigrants to the United States UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area European Inventor Award winners Articles with imported dually licensed text 20th-century American inventors 21st-century American inventors American academics of Indian descent Fellows of the American Physical Society Annual Reviews (publisher) editors