Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (President of India)

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam அவுல் பகீர் ஜைனுலாப்தீன் அப்துல் கலாம  (President of India)

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam) is a renowned aerospace engineer, professor (of Aerospace engineering), and first Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram (IIST), who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. During his term as President, he was popularly known as the People's President. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honor in 1997.

About

Born: 15 October 1931, Rameswaram, British India (now Tamil Nadu, India)
Died: 27 July 2015 (aged 83) Shillong, Meghalaya, India
Alma mater: St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli; Madras Institute of Technology
Occupation: Professor (Aerospace engineering), nuclear scientist, rocket scientist, author, academic
Profession: Aerospace engineer
Religion: Islam
Nationality: Indian

Life:

APJ Abdul Kalam is 11th Honorable President of Great India from 2002 to 2007. He is a famous Indian Muslim scientist. Before his term as India's president, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). He is popularly known as the "Missile Man of India" for his work on the development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.
Kalam 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. Dr. Kalam has even been circled with various controversies as many scientific experts called him a man with no authority over "nuclear physics" and a man who just carried the works of Dr. Homi Bhabha and Dr. Vikram Sarabhai.
He is currently a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Chancellor of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Anna University (Chennai), a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Indore, and an adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India.
In May 2011, Dr. Kalam launched his mission for the youth of the nation called the What Can I Give Movement. Dr. Kalam better known as a scientist, also has special interest in the field of arts like writing Tamil poems, and also playing the music instrument Veenai.
 Kalam, as a child, had a tough routine – he would start his day by getting up at 4:00 am; study and review his homework before going to school to attend the mathematics class as his first class of the day.

List of Owners(Till 2011, incomplete list):

Year of Award or Honor Name of Award or Honor Awarding Organization
2011 Doctor of Science (microbiology) S.Gujarati University
2011 IEEE Honorary Membership IEEE
2009 Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) Anna University of Technology
2009 Hoover Medal ASME Foundation, USA
2009 International von Kármán Wings Award California Institute of Technology, U.S.A
2008 Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2007 King Charles II Medal Royal Society, U.K
1997 Bharat Ratna Government of India
1990 Padma Vibhushan Government of India
1981 Padma Bhushan Government of India

Biographies:

Eternal Quest: Life and Times of Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam by S. Chandra; Pentagon Publishers, 2002.
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam by R. K. Pruthi; Anmol Publications, 2002.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam: The Visionary of India by K. Bhushan, G. Katyal; A.P.H. Pub. Corp, 2002.
A Little Dream (documentary film) by P. Dhanapal; Minveli Media Works Private Limited, 2008.
The Kalam Effect: My Years with the President by P.M. Nair; Harper Collins, 2008.
My Days With Mahatma Abdul Kalam by Fr.A.K. George; ISBN No:978-8190452953; Publisher: Novel Corporation, 2009.

Books and documentaries:

Latest Book by APJ Abdul Kalam- "Target Three Billion"
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam by A. P. J Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari; by K. Bhushan, G. Katyal; A. P. J. Pub. Corp, 2002.
Scientist to President by Abdul A. P. J. Kalam; Gyan Publishing House, 2003.
Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; Penguin Books, 2003.
India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Y.S. Rajan; Penguin Books India, 2003.
India-my-dream by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; Excel Books, 2004.
Envisioning an Empowered Nation: Technology for Societal Transformation by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; TATA McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd, 2004.
Guiding Souls: Dialogues on the Purpose of Life by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Arun K Tiwari; Ocean Books, 2005.
The Life Tree : Poems by A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Paintings by Manav Gupta; Penguin Books India, 2005
Children Ask Kalam by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam; Pearson Education, ISBN 81-7758-245-3
Indomitable Spirit by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, 2006
The Scientific Indian: A Twenty-first Century Guide to the World around Us by APJ Abdul Kalam and YS Rajan
My Journey by APJ Abdul Kalam, Published By: V Suryanarayana Murthy
TARGET 3 BILLION PURA: Innovative Solutions towards Sustainable Development by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Srijan Pal Singh ISBN 978-0-143-41730-9
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