Ivan A. Getting

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Ivan Alexander Getting (born January 18, 1912 in New York City , † October 11, 2003 in Coronado , California ) was an American physicist and electrical engineer .

Life

Getting was born to a Slovak immigrant family in New York City. He spent his childhood in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania. Getting studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oxford University in the 1930s . During World War II he worked under Henry L. Stimson in the US military in the field of radar defense . After the war, he worked for the US company Raytheon Corporation from 1951 to 1960 . In 1960 he became the founding president of Aerospace Corporation , which he ran until 1977. Together with Bradford Parkinson and Roger L. Easton, he is considered to be the inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • Medal for Merit from the US President, 1948
  • Naval Ordnance Development Award
  • Air Force Exceptional Service Award, 1960
  • IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Pioneer Award, 1975
  • Kitty Hawk Award, 1975
  • IEEE Founders Medal, 1989
  • Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, 1997
  • John Fritz Medal, 1998
  • Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs
  • San Diego Aerospace Museum's International Aerospace Hall of Fame, 200
  • Navy Superior Public Service Award, 1999
  • National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper Prize (joint with Bradford Parkinson, 2003)
  • National Inventors Hall of Fame (posthumous 2004)
  • MIT150 list

membership

1941 Getting Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1948 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved October 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Getting, Ivan A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Getting, Ivan Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2003
Place of death Coronado , California