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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen
"
A. P. J.
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Abdul Kalam
(; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was the
11th
President of India
from 2002 to 2007. A career scientist turned politician, Kalam was born and raised in
Rameswaram
,
Tamil Nadu
, and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the
Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) and
Indian Space Research Organisation
(ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military
missile development efforts
. He thus came to be known as the
Missile Man of India
for his work on the development of
ballistic missile
and
launch vehicle
technology. He also played a pivotal organizational, technical, and political role in India's
Pokhran-II
nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the
original nuclear test by India
in 1974.
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