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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as president of India from 2002 to 2007. [1] Born in Rameswaram in Southern India, Kalam spent four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation and Indian Space Research Organisation and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and ...
My Days With Mahatma Abdul Kalam by Fr A K George; Novel Corporation, 2009. [176] A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: A Life by Arun Tiwari; Harper Collins, 2015. [177] The People's President: Dr A P J Abdul Kalam by S M Khan; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. [178] Film and media. In 2008, a documentary film A Little Dream directed by P. Dhanapal was released in ...
The award prize will be five hundred thousand Indian rupees (about US$7,700), a certificate and a gold medal weighing eight grams. [4] The Chief Minister stated "Vibrant India; Prosperous Tamil Nadu. To strengthen this, I have ordered to institute an award in memory of Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
Rabindranath Tagore was the first person of Indian origin and also first Asian to be awarded with the Nobel Prize. [1] He received the prize for Literature in 1913.. The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on "those who conferred the greatest benefit on humankind" in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economic Sciences, [A ...
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations. Due to some recipients receiving multiple ...
It is an international university supported by 18 member countries of the East Asia Summit, [19] with the initial proposal being placed by the former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. [20] The first Chancellor of the university was Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, followed by Singapore's Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo. [21]
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