Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam better known as A. P. J. Abdul Kasam (About this sound listen); 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015), was the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.he was an inspiration to the youth of every generation. People used to call him missile man of India. A career scientist turned statesman, Kalam 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.
