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1. Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam
A Missile Man
1931-2015
2. INTRODUCTION
• A P J Abdul Kalam was born on
15 October 1931 in a Tamil
Muslim family
in Rameswaram in the Indian
state of Tamil Nadu. His father's
name was Jainulabudeen, a boat
owner, and his mother
Ashiamma, a housewife.
3. His childhood was from a
poor background and he
started working at an early
age to supplement his
family's income. After
completing school, Kalam
distributed newspapers to
contribute
to his father's income.
4. In his school years he had
average grades but was
described as a bright and
hardworking student who
had a strong desire to learn
and spend hours on his
studies, especially
mathematics
6. After
EducatioN
• After graduating from MIT,
Kalam took up the position of
chief scientist at the
Aeronautical Development
Establishment of Defense
Research and Development
Organization (DRDO).
7. • However, the profile
didn’t appeal Kalam much
who shifted to the Indian
Space Research
Organization (ISRO)
where he was the project
director of India's first
indigenous Satellite
9. Achievements
Kalam started his career by
designing a small helicopter for the
Indian Army. Joining ISRO was
one of Kalam's biggest
achievements in life and he is said
to have found himself when he
started to work on the SLV project.
10. • During the period between
the 1970s and 1990s, Kalam
made an effort to develop the
Polar
SLV and SLV-III
projects, both of
which proved to
be success.
11. • Kalam played a
major part in
developing many
missiles under the
mission including
Agni, Prithvi,
Aakash, Nag etc.
• He also
designed a
tablet PC for
health care in
rural areas,
which was
named as
"Kalam-Raju
Tablet".
• The Pokhran-II nuclear tests were conducted
during this period where he played an intensive
political and technological role in 1998.
13. After leaving office, Kalam became a
visiting professor at the Indian Institute of
Management Shillong,
The Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Indore,
an honorary fellow of Indian Institute
OFScience, Bangalore
Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space
Science and Technology
Thiruvananthapuram
professor of Aerospace Engineering
at Anna University
15. BOOKS….
In his life he wrote two books:
A) Wings of fire
B) Ignited Minds
Both books were famous were at
international level. What ever
royalty he earned from the sales
of these books, he donated that
royalty amount in NGOs.
19. 1981 Padma Bhushan Government of India
1990 Padma Vibhushan Government of India
1997 Bharat Ratna Government of India
1997 Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration
Government of India
1998 Veer Savarkar Award Government of India
2000 Ramanujan Award Alwars Research Centre,
Chennai
2007 Honorary Doctorate of Science
University of Wolverhampton, U.K
And so many……………
24. Last Breath
He had been delivering a lecture
at the Indian Institute of
Management in Shillong when he
collapsed and suffered cardiac
arrest. He was rushed to
the Bethany hospital where he
passed on…….