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Ivan A. Getting
American physicist and engineer · United States · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1912 to 2003 · aged 91
Ivan Alexander Getting was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
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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.