A.P.J Abdul Kalam

Missile Man of India

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (/'a:bdel ke'lam:m/(About this soundlisten); 15 October 1931-27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th presidents of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studies physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and was intimately involved inn India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work ont he development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.