Ivan A. Getting

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American physicist and engineer

United States ScientistsLived 1912 to 2003 · aged 91

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Ivan Alexander Getting was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).

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Awards 6

2004National Inventors Hall of Fame

2003Charles Stark Draper Prize

1998John Fritz Medal

1989IEEE Founders Medal

1933Rhodes Scholarship

Fellow of the American Physical Society

Connected to Ivan 6

William NorrisAlso won IEEE Founders Medal

James W. PlummerAlso won Charles Stark Draper Prize Crawford GreenewaltAlso won John Fritz Medal

John Joseph CartyAlso won John Fritz Medal Ernst WeberAlso won IEEE Founders Medal

Martin SchadtAlso won Charles Stark Draper Prize

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Ivan Alexander Getting was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). He was the co-leader of the research group which developed the SCR-584, an automatic microwave tracking fire-control system, which enabled M9 Gun Director directed anti-aircraft guns to destroy a significant percentage of the German V-1 flying bombs launched against London late in the Second World War.

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