A.P.J ABDUL KALAM -The missile man

He was an Indian Aerospace scientist who served as the 11th president of Indian 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 Indias civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of Indianfor his work on development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology . He also played a pivotal oraganisational , technical, and political role in Indias Pokhran -II nuclear tests in1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.