Ivan A. Getting (January 18, 1912—October 11, 2003) was an American Physicist and Electrical Engineer, credited (along with Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Inventor of the SCR-584 automatic microwave tracking fire-control system that is credited with enabling anti-aircraft guns to destroy 95% of the V-1 German cruise bombs that attacked London late in the Second World War.
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Ivan Getting of Rad Lab dies at 91; helped develop GPS

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