FEW WORD ABOUT APJ ABDUL KALAM
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam ,b.15 October 1931, is one of India's most distingushed scientists.He was responsible for the development of India's first satellite launch vehicle, the SLV-3, development and operationalization of strategic missiles and their weaponization, and for building indigenous capability in critical technologies. As Chairman of the Technology information, forecasting and Assessment Council, he guided a number of technology projects and missions to take India into the twenty-first century. The document to Technology Vision 2020 is a blueprint to make India a developed country. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam held various positions in ISRO and DRDO and become Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India holding the rank of a cabinet minister. He has the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from thiry universities and the country 's three highest civilian honours-Padma Bhushan (1981), Padma Vibhushan (1990) and Bharat Ratna (1997). He has done a short stint as Professor of Technology and Societal Transformaion at Anna Unoversity, Chennai and is at the halfway mark in meeting 100,000 high school students throughout the country.He is the author of the autobiographical Wings of Fire and India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium. All this books have been translated into several Indian languages
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