Ivan A. Getting, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American physicist and engineer
Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1912
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 11-Oct-2003
Profession: physicist, inventor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ivan A. Getting
- Ivan Alexander Getting (January 18, 1912 – October 11, 2003) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited (along with Roger L.
- Easton and Bradford Parkinson) with the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS).
- He was the co-leader (the other being Louis Ridenour) of the research group which developed the SCR-584, an automatic microwave tracking fire-control system, which enabled 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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