Question: What is the name of the former President of India who was born and raised in Tamil Nadu, studied physics and engineering and was Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology?

 A career scientist turned statesman, Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, and studied physics and aerospace engineering.  He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts.  He thus came to be known as the "Missile Man of India" for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.  He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's "Pokhran-II" nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam better known as A. P. J. Abdul Kalam ( ; 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015), was the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. <SEP> Prof P S Mani Sundaram (December 9, 1927 – October 26, 2013) was an Indian Educationist and pioneer of Computer Science Education.  He was born in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma).  He graduated from Loyola College, Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India.  After completing Masters Studies in Civil Engineering at Nova Scotia University, Canada in 1958, he returned to Tamil Nadu and started his career as a lecturer at Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu.  He was the first Principal of the Regional Engineering College (currently the National Institute of Technology), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu.  He became the first Vice Chancellor of the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli,Tamil Nadu when the University was created in 1982.  Prof P.S. Manisundaram was associated with many Universities and Educational Institutions in India and around the world.  He was conferred "Doctor of Engineering" (Honoris Causa) by Dalhousie University (Formerly Technical University of Nova Scotia), Halifax, Canada in 1984.  He died in Chennai (Madras), India on October 26, 2013. <SEP>  It is the first university in Asia to be solely dedicated to the study and research of Outer space.  It was inaugurated on 14 September 2007 by G. Madhavan Nair, the then Chairman of ISRO. The Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) is a government-aided institute and deemed university for the study and research of space science, located at Valiamala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.  IIST was set up by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) under the Department of Space, Government of India.  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, former President of India, was the Chancellor of IIST. <SEP> David John McComas (born May 22, 1958) is an American space plasma physicist, Vice President for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University.  He had been Assistant Vice President for Space Science and Engineering at the Southwest Research Institute, full Adjoint Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), and was the founding director of the Center for Space Science and Exploration at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  He is noted for his extensive accomplishments in experimental space plasma physics, including leading instruments and missions to study the heliosphere and solar wind: Ulysses/SWOOPS, ACE/SWEPAM, IBEX, TWINS, and Solar Probe Plus.  He received the 2014 COSPAR Space Science Award and the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal.