Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (Tamil: அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம், born October 15, 1931) commonly referred to APJ Abdul Kalam, is an aerospace engineer, professor and chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), which served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.During his tenure as President, he was popularly known as the people President.He was awarded Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor.

Before his tenure as President of India, worked as an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. It is popularly known as human missiles of India for his work on the development of ballistic missiles and rockets played a fundamental policy technology.Kalam organizational, technical and India Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test India in 1974.

He is currently Chancellor Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Professor Anna University (Chennai), a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management Indore, and in addition to / visiting faculty, many universities and research institutes in throughout India.

In May 2011, Dr. Kalam took his young nation called What I can give Movement.Dr. Kalam better known as a scientist, is also particularly interested in art than writing poems in Tamil language, and even played a musical instrument Veena.