37 | Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) 38 | was an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th president of 39 | India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil 40 | Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next 41 | four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the 42 | Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space 43 | Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's 44 | civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He 45 | thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the 46 | development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He 47 | also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in 48 | India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original 49 | nuclear test by India in 1974. 50 |
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