Avul pakir Jainulabdeen apdul khalam was an indian aerospace scientist and statesman who
served as the president of india form 2002 to 2007.
Born and raised ina Muslim family in Rameswaram,Tamil Nadu,Kalam studied physics and
aerospace engineering.He spent the next four decades as a scientist administrator,
mainly at the Defence Research and Devolopment Organisation (DRDO) and indian space
Research Organisation (ISRO)and was intimatly involved in india's civilian space programming and military
missile devolopment effort.He was known as the "Missile man of india" for his work on
the devolopment of ballistic missile and launch vehile technology. He also played a pivotal
organisation,technical,and political rule in pokhran-2 nuclear test in 1998,india's secont such
test after the first test in 1974.
kalam was elected as the presitent of the india in 2002 with the support of both the ruling bharathiya
janatha party and the then-oppocition India National Congress.He was widly refered to as the
"People's President".He engaged in teaching,writing and puplic service after his precidency.He
was a recipient of several awards,include the bharat Ratna,india's highest civilian honor.
While delivering a lecture at IIM shillong kalam collapsed and died from an apparent cardiac
arrest on 27 july 2025,aged 83.Thousands with attended the funeral ceremony held in his homedown
of Rameshwaram,Where he was burued with full state honors.Amemorial was inaugurated nuclear
his home town in 2017.
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