4. Birth
Full name :Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Father: Jainulabdeen Marakayar,a boat owner
Mother: Ashiamma
Visit on the Planet:15th Oct 1931,at Dhanushkodi in
Rameswaram District, Tamil Nadu
Has three siblings
5. Early life
Kalam's father owned a ferry that took Hindu pilgrims back and
forth between Rameshwaram and the now uninhabited
Dhanushkodi
By his early childhood, Kalam's
family had become poor; at an
early age, he sold newspapers to
supplement his family's income.
6. As a scientist
After graduating from the Madras Institute of
Technology in 1960, Kalam joined the Aeronautical
Development Establishment of the Defense Research
and Development Organization (DRDO) as a scientist. He
started his career by designing a small helicopter for
the Indian Army, but remained unconvinced by his
choice of a job at DRDO. In 1969, Kalam was transferred
to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) where
he was the project director of India's first Satellite
Launch Vehicle (SLV -III) which successfully deployed
the Rohini satellite in near-earth orbit in July 1980;
Kalam had first started work on an expandable rocket
project independently at DRDO in 1965
7. Achievement in science
SLV-III successfully launched
satellite Rohini to orbit on July 1980.
From then, Mr Kalam expanded
India’s space programmer.
In the 1980s he led India’s missile programmer. Under his leadership, India
became a major military power after the successes of Agni and Prithvi.
He was the Chief Scientific Adviser to the
Prime Minister and the Secretary of
Defense Research and Development
Organization from July 1992 to December
1999.
In 1998, along with cardiologist Dr.Soma
Raju, Kalam developed a low cost
Coronary stent. It was named as “Kalam-
Raju Stent” honouring them. In 2012, the
duo designed a rugged tablet PC for health
care in rural areas, which was named as
“Kalam-Raju Tablet”.
In 1998, the Pokhran-II tests
cemented India’s nuclear prowess. Mr
Kalam played the pivotal role in the
project. He firmly told the
international community that such
arms were only to deter other nations
from trying to subjugate India, and
were only to be used as “weapons of
peace”.
9. Comparison with other leaders:
Pratibha Patel was noted
for having spent more
money on foreign trips,
and having taken a
greater number of
foreign trips, than any
prior presidents.
President Pratibha
Patel's trips cost record
Rs205 core
Modi Spending Rs 10,000 Cr
on Campaigning 'This is equal
to what US President Barrack
Obama spent on his entire
presidential campaign.
Kalam only used
ordinary rooms only
and spent a least
amount of money and
went out after
presidency with only a
two suitcase one with
books and one with
cloth
10. After leaving office, Kalam became a visiting professor
at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong ,
the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and
the Indian Institute of Management Indore; an
honorary fellow of Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore; chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space
Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram;
professor of Aerospace Engineering at Anna University;
and an adjunct at many other academic and research
institutions across India. He taught information
technology at the International Institute of Information
Technology, Hyderabad, and technology at Banaras
Hindu University and Anna University
Post presidency:
11. Facts about Abdul Kalam
He is the first scientist and first unmarried person to become the President of India.He is the first scientist and first unmarried person to become the President of India.He is the first scientist and first unmarried person to become the President of India.He is the first scientist and first unmarried person to become the President of India.He is the first scientist and first unmarried person to become the President of India.He is the first scientist and first unmarried person to become the President of India.
He is the first scientist and first unmarried person
to become the President of India.
He has got 1.37M of followers on Twitter
He has got 1.37M of followers on Twitter.
The Only Cricketer He Followed in Twitter Is
VVS
His father, a humble boat owner, Jainulabdeen,
was a devout Muslim and a close friend of the
Rameswaran temple priest
Kalam begins his day by reading from the
Bhagwad Gita
Kalam lead a remarkable ascetic life.
He works for about 18 hours each day.
He plays the 'Rudra Veena'.
Took leave just twice, when his parents died.
He is a self-confessed 'Ram Bhakt'.
Dr Kalam owned precious little, among them his 2,500 books, a
wristwatch, six shirts, four trousers, three suits, and a pair of shoes
14. Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Failure will never overtake me if my determination
to succeed is strong enough
Don’t take rest after your first victory because if
you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say
that your first victory was just luck
All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids
rain by flying above the Clouds
Man needs difficulties in life because they are
necessary to enjoy the success
If you want to shine like a sun. First
burn like a sun
All of us do not have equal talent. But , all of us
have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
15. Death:
On 27 July 2015, Kalam travelled to Shillong to
deliver a lecture on "Creating a Livable Planet
Earth" at the Indian Institute of Management
Shillong. At around 6:35 p.m. IST, only five
minutes into his lecture, he collapsed. He was
rushed to the nearby Bethany Hospital in a
critical condition; upon arrival, he lacked a
pulse or any other signs of life. Despite being
placed in the intensive care unit, Kalam was
confirmed dead of a sudden cardiac arrest at
7:45 p.m IST. His last words, to his aide Srijan
Pal Singh, were reportedly: "Funny guy! Are
you doing well?"
