During the period between the 1970s and 1990s, Kalam made an effort to develop the Polar SLV and SLV-III projects, both of which proved to be success.

In the 1970s, Kalam also directed two projects, namely, Project Devil and Project Valiant, which sought to develop ballistic missiles from the technology of the successful SLV programme.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, an aerospace engineer and former President of India, asked the BrahMos Aerospace to develop an advanced version of the BrahMos cruise missile to maintain India's lead in the field.

* 1931 – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Eleventh President of India

* October 15 – Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, President of India

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; Tamil: அவ ு ல ் பக ி ர ் ஜ ை ன ு லப ் த ீ ன ் அப ் த ு ல ் கல ா ம ்; born 15 October 1931 ) usually referred to as Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, is an Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India.

Kalam is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.

Kalam was elected the President of India in 2002, defeating Lakshmi Sahgal and was supported by both the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the major political parties of India.

Kalam is known for his motivational speeches and interaction with the student community in India.

Abdul Kalam served as the 11th President of India, succeeding K. R. Narayanan.

* Muslim missile engineer Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is elected president of India, to be sworn into office July 25.

Abdul Kalam ( the " missile-man of India "), and the writer Sujatha among others.

First he worked as Director of the Madras Institute of Technology, where one of his students was Abdul Kalam ( later Kalam became President of India and designed indigenous satellite launch vehicles and missiles ).

* Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam: India Wins Freedom, Orient Longman, 1988.

Abdul Kalam is elected president of India.

* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

* President of India – K. R. Narayanan until 25 July, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Abdul Kalam, a Muslim and prominent missile scientist, president of India.

* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam until July 25, Pratibha Patil

* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

* President of India – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Fernandes, however, claimed that the scientific adviser to the Defence Minister in NDA Government ( 1998 – 2004 ), who later became the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, had cleared the missile deal.

He was presented with the award on June 30, 2004, by then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

al-Muqammiṣ was first to introduce the methods of Kalam into Judaism and the first Jew to mention Aristotle in his writings.

Baḥya borrows from Sufism and Jewish Kalam integrating them into Neoplatonism.

When asked about an individual who delved into Kalam, Malik answered, " He establishes his innuendo with kalaam, and if kalaam had been knowledge, the Companions and the tabi ' in would have spoken about it, just as they spoke about the rules and regulations.

Abdul Kalam gave permission to enquire into the allegations that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had been holding office of profit at the time of elections.

Kalam has his own mission to undertake and soon slips into the desert as he has acquired the Book of the Apocalypse which must be delivered to Sha ' ik.

Orientation, the first section of Wings of Fire, spread into first three chapters, covers 32 years of Kalam ’ s life, from his birth in a middle class Tamil people, Tamil family in the island town of Rameshwaram, his early schooling at Schwartz High School, Ramanathapuram, his undergraduate education at St. Joseph College, Trichy, completion of a degree course in aeronautic engineering from Madras Institute of Technology, and ends with him moving to the United States for a six month training program at NASA.

In 1998, along with cardiologist Dr. Soma Raju, Kalam developed a low cost Coronary stent.

Sopanam is religious in nature, and developed through singing invocatory songs at the Kalam of Kali, and later inside temples.

The Book is dedicated to a young girl whom Kalam met and asked as " what is your dream " for which the young girl replied " I want to live in a developed India.

" Referring to the argument as the "' Kalam ' cosmological argument ", Duncan asserts that it " received its fullest articulation at the hands of Muslim and Jewish exponents of Kalam (" the use of reason by believers to justify the basic metaphysical presuppositions of the faith ).

In light of the Big Bang theory, a stylized version of argument has emerged ( sometimes called the Kalam cosmological argument, the following form of which was created by Al-Gazali and then strongly supported by William Lane Craig ):

Kalam started his career by designing a small helicopter for the Indian Army, but remained unconvinced with the choice of his job at DRDO.

Kalam was invited by Raja Ramanna to witness the country's first nuclear test Smiling Buddha as the representative of TBRL, even though he had not participated in the development, test site preparation and weapon designing.

Kalam and Dr. V. S. Arunachalam, metallurgist and scientific adviser to the Defense Minister, worked on the suggestion by the then Defense Minister, R. Venkataraman on a proposal for simulataneous development of a quiver of missiles instead of taking planned missiles one by one.

Photos and snapshots of him taken by the media elevated Kalam as the country's top nuclear scientist.

The lahoot salbi or " negative theology " involves the use of ta ' til, which means " negation ," and the followers of the Mu ' tazili school of Kalam, founded by Imam Wasil ibn Ata, are often called the Mu ' attili, because they are frequent users of the ta ' til methodology.

But most Sunnis, who are Ash ' ari and Maturidi by Kalam use ta ' til to some extent, if not completely.

The NDA then put forth a third candidate Abdul Kalam as their official choice, without seeking consensus ; one opposition party ( the Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav ) dissipated the unity of the Opposition by supporting this proposal.

In the medieval Islamic world, due to Avicenna's successful reconciliation of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism along with Kalam, Avicennism eventually became the leading school of early Islamic philosophy by the 12th century, with Avicenna becoming a central authority on philosophy.

The twelfth century saw the apotheosis of pure philosophy and the decline of the Kalam, which latter, being attacked by both the philosophers and the orthodox, perished for lack of champions.

In 219 CE, the Sura Academy ( from which Jewish Kalam emerged many centuries later ) was founded by Abba Arika.

Abdul Kalam released a photo-biography, written and compiled by Dr. Sunil Kothari with a foreword by former president R. Venkataraman.

The twelfth century saw the apotheosis of pure philosophy and the decline of the Kalam, which later, being attacked by both the philosophers and the orthodox, perished for lack of champions.

Due to Avicenna's ( Ibn Sina's ) successful reconciliation between Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism along with Kalam, Avicennism eventually became the leading school of Islamic philosophy by the 12th century.

Islamic law placed importance on formulating standards of argument, which gave rise to a novel approach to logic in Kalam, but this approach was later displaced by ideas from Greek philosophy and Hellenistic philosophy with the rise of the Mu ' tazili philosophers, who highly valued Aristotle's Organon.

Malik believed that Kalam was rooted in heretical doctrines taken up and followed by controversial theologians such as Jahm bin Safwan.

The name " Indian Institute of Technology " was adopted before the formal inauguration of the institute on 18 August 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

On February 1, 1953, the National Library was opened to the public, inaugurated by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.