Albert Einstein and APJ Abdul Kalam

1. FAMOUS SCIENTISTS AND THEIR
CONTRIBUTIONS
PRESENTED BY
ASWINI CHANDRAN

3. MARCH14, 1879MARCH14, 1879
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm,
Germany

4. CONTRIBUTIONS
• PROVIDED POWERFUL CONFIRMATION THAT ATOMS AND
MOLECULES ACTUALLY EXIST, THROUGH HIS ANALYSIS OF
BROWNIAN MOTION.
• DEMONSTRATED THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT, ESTABLISHING
THAT LIGHT CAN BEHAVE AS BOTH A WAVE AND A PARTICLE.
LIGHT PARTICLES (HE CALLED THEM QUANTA) WITH THE
CORRECT AMOUNT OF ENERGY CAN EJECT ELECTRONS FROM
METALS.
• PROVED THAT EVERYONE, WHATEVER SPEED WE MOVE AT,
MEASURES THE SPEED OF LIGHT TO BE 300 MILLION METERS PER
SECOND IN A VACUUM. THIS LED TO THE STRANGE NEW REALITY
THAT TIME PASSES MORE SLOWLY FOR PEOPLE TRAVELING AT
VERY HIGH SPEEDS COMPARED WITH PEOPLE MOVING MORE
SLOWLY.

5. • DISCOVERED THE HUGELY IMPORTANT AND ICONIC
EQUATION, E = MC2, WHICH SHOWED THAT ENERGY AND
MATTER CAN BE CONVERTED INTO ONE ANOTHER.
• REWROTE THE LAW OF GRAVITATION, WHICH HAD BEEN
UNCHALLENGED SINCE ISAAC NEWTON PUBLISHED IT IN 1687.
IN HIS GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, EINSTEIN:
• SHOWED THAT MATTER CAUSES SPACE TO CURVE, WHICH
PRODUCES GRAVITY.
• SHOWED THAT THE PATH OF LIGHT FOLLOWS THE
GRAVITATIONAL CURVE OF SPACE.
. ALBERT EINSTEIN DEVELOPS HIS SPECIAL THEORY OF
RELATIVITY

6. APRIL 18, 1955
• ALBERT EINSTEIN DIES
OF HEART FAILURE.
• THIS IS A PICTURE OF
HIS LAST BLACKBOARD

8. 15 OCT 1931
AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN ABDUL KALAM WAS BORN ON 15
OCTOBER 1931 TO A TAMIL MUSLIM FAMILY IN THE PILGRIMAGE
CENTRE OF RAMESWARAM . HIS FATHER JAINULABUDEEN WAS A
BOAT OWNER AND IMAM OF A LOCAL MOSQUE. HIS MOTHER
ASHIAMMA WAS A HOUSEWIFE.

9. CONTRIBUTIONS
• SATELLITE LAUNCH VEHICLE : DURING THE 1970S, WHEN
INDIA HAD HARDLY DREAMT OF ITS SLV, DR. APJ ABDUL
KALAM LAUNCHED SLV III IN JULY 1980, WHICH DEPLOYED
ROHINI IN NEAR EARTH ORBIT. IT WAS NEARLY A DECADE’S
HARD WORK OF KALAM, WHICH MADE THIS TASK POSSIBLE.
• INTEGRATED GUIDED MISSILE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM : DR.
KALAM WAS APPOINTED AS THE CEO OF THIS HIGH-END
PROGRAM. RATHER THAN BACKING OFF FROM THIS
RESPONSIBILITY, KALAM TRIED IN THE BEST WAY POSSIBLE TO
MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL. AS A RESULT OF HIS HARD WORK AND
DEVOTION, MISSILES LIKE AGNI (A BALLISTIC MISSILE) AND
PRITHVI (SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILE) CAME INTO
EXISTENCE.

10. • POKHRAN-II NUCLEAR TESTS : DURING HIS TENURE AS
SECRETARY OF THE DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATION AND CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR TO PRIME
MINISTER BETWEEN JULY 1992 AND DECEMBER 1999, HE TOOK
SOME GREAT DECISIONS. DR. KALAM’S INTENSIVE TECHNICAL
AND POLITICAL HELP IN POKHRAN-II NUCLEAR TESTS EARNED
HIM A LOT OF MEDIA COVERAGE AND ESTABLISHED HIM AS
THE BEST LIVING NUCLEAR SCIENTIST IN THE COUNTRY.
• KALAM-RAJU TABLET: DR. KALAM AND SOMA RAJU, A WELL-
KNOWN CARDIOLOGIST, CAME UP WITH A RUGGED TABLET
COMPUTER IN 2012 TO TAKE CARE OF THE HEALTH OF
UNDERPRIVILEGED PEOPLE IN RURAL INDIA. IT HELPED THE
GOVERNMENT FIGHT MANY HEALTH ISSUES

12. BOOKS

13. THANK U