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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and politician who served because the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Ramaswaram, province and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent  the subsequent  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 called the Missile Man of India for his work on the event of missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokharan-2 nuclear tests in 1998,  the first  since the initial nuclear test by India in 1974.Kalam was elected because the 11th President of India in 2002 with the support of both the ruli...