Abdul kalam, he was the 11th president and he was born in Rameswaram on October 15, 1931. And his father was a boatman.
Kalam studied physics and aerospace engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology.
He spent many years as a scientist and also 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 Mossley Manchester of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.
He was the chief scientific adviser to the prime minister and the defence minister diring 1992 to 1999. 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.
Kalam studied physics and aerospace engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology.
He spent many years as a scientist and also 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 Mossley Manchester of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.
He was the chief scientific adviser to the prime minister and the defence minister diring 1992 to 1999. 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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