Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

About the Legend

• Full name :Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam• Visit on the Planet:15th Oct 1931,at Dhanushkodi in Rameswaram

District,Tamil Nadu • Father:Jainulabdeen Marakayar,a boat owner• Mother:Ashiamma• Has three siblings

Rameshwaram,Tamilnadu

Birth Place

Tamilnadu

AuthorProfessorEngineerScientist

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is

President

Education Primary education was from Rameshwaram elementary school. Later he settled in schwartz, Ramanathapuram where he was highly inspired by

his teacher IYADURAI SOLOMON,who told to master three forces desire,belief and expectation.

In 1950 he joined St Joseph college at Tiruchirapalli to do B.Sc. He joined DMIT in Aeronautical Engineering at MIT,Madas(1954-1957) In 1958,after passing as a graduate,aeronautical engineer,he joined Hindustan

Aeronautical Limited(HAL),Bangalore as a trainee.

Personal life• Abdul kalam personal life was full of struggles and hard . • Kalam's father was a devout Muslim, who owned boats which

he rented out to local fishermen • Kalam started his career as a newspaper vendor.• On Wednesday April 29, 2009, Abdul kalam became the first

Asian to be bestowed the Hoover Medal, America's top engineering prize, for his outstanding contribution to public service.

• Abdul Kalam was the Third President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna before being elected to the highest office, the others being Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan and Zakir Hussain .

• Defense research and development organization

Work at

( D.R.D.O. )• Indian space research organization

( I.S.R.O. )

In DRDO Kalam designed a new missile AgniInvention

Major Contributions He helped in the development of India’s first Satellite Launch Vehicle SLV-3, in1980 which helped

India to become the member of Space Club by injecting Rohini, in Earth’s nearest orbit. As the Project Director, he was heavily involved in the development of India's first indigenous Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III).

In 1982, as Director of DRDO, Kalam was entrusted with the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme(IGMDP), India's most successful military research task to date. The programme constituted of 5 major projects for meeting the requirements of the defence services.

The 5 projects were scheduled to be completed in a time frame of only 10 years and consisted of: (1) Nag - an anti-tank guided missile (2) Prithvi - a surface-to-surface battlefield missile (3) Akash - a swift, medium-range surface-to-air missile (4) Trishul - a quick-reaction surface-to-air missile with a shorter range (5) Agni - an intermediate range ballistic missile, the mightiest .

Cont… He played a pivotal organizational, technical and political role in India’s Pokhran-II Nuclear test in

1998. He served as a principal scientific adviser to the Defense Minister and later Govt of India (1999-

2001) and was responsible for evolving policies, strategies and missions for many development applications.

Dr. Kalam was also the Chairman, Ex-officio, of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet (SAC-C).

As Chairman, Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), he generated the Technology Vision 2020 documents.

Achievements• Apart from being a notable scientist and engineer, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam served as

the 11th President of India from the period 2002 to 2007. Before Kalam, there have been only two presidents - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Zakir Hussain - to have received the Bharat Ratna before being appointed to the highest office in India.

• He is a man of vision and also referred to as the Missile Man of India. • People loved and respected Dr APJ Abdul Kalam so much that he was popularly

called the People's President. • He was the first scientist who became president of India.

Contd…• In the year 1981, the Government of India presented him the nation's highest

civilian honor, the Padma Bhushan• The Padma Vibhushan in 1990 • Bharat Ratna in 1997. • He received honorary doctorates from about 30 universities globally.

AwardsYear Name of award Awarding organization2012 Doctor of Laws Simon Fraser University2011 IEEE Honorary

MembershipIEEE

2010 Doctor of Engineering University of waterloo2009 Hoover medal ASME Foundation, USA2009 International von Karman

Wings AwardCalifornia institute of technology

2008 Doctor of engineering Nanyang technological university, Singapore

2007 Honorary doctor of science

University of Wolverhampton, U.K

Books by Dr. Kalam

Books• Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam . • Scientist to President by Abdul A.P.J. Kalam; • Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; • India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam• India-my-dream by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam• Envisioning an Empowered Nation: Technology for Societal Transformation by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; • Guiding Souls: Dialogues on the Purpose of Life • Children Ask Kalam by A.P.J Abdul Kalam; • Indomitable Spirit by A.P.J Abdul Kalam

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