Indian Popular scientist
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Dr. Abul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born on 15 th October 1931. After obtaining his primary education at Rameshwaram, he moved to Schwartz Higher Secondary School in the neighbouring Ramanathpuram to study science. Then he studied Aeronautical Engineering at Madras University of Technology. Dr. Kalam worked as a senior scientist of Defence Research and Development Organisation to work on hovercraft project. In 1962, he was sent to Indian Space Research Organisation to work on various projects. He was given the charge of SLV project and SLV-3 was successfully launched after that. Eventually, he was given the charge of Integrated Guided Missile Development Prog...