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Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam) (15 October 1931 –
27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and politician who
served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and
raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace
engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and 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 programme and military
missile development efforts.He thus came to be known as the Missile Man
of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and
launch vehicle technology.He also played a pivotal organisational,
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
was elected as the 11th President of India in 2002 with the support of
both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the then-opposition Indian
National Congress. Widely referred to as the "People's President",he
returned to his civilian life of education, writing and public service
after a single term. He was a recipient of several prestigious awards,
including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
While
delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong,
Kalam collapsed and died from an apparent cardiac arrest on 27 July
2015, aged 83.Thousands, including national-level dignitaries, attended
the funeral ceremony held in his hometown of Rameswaram, where he was
buried with full state honours.
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