Ivan A. Getting
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American physicist and engineer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ivan Alexander Getting was an American physicist and electrical engineer, credited with the development of the Global Positioning System . 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.
Ivan A. Getting's Published Works
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- An Apparent Effect of Galactic Rotation on the Intensity of Cosmic Rays (1935) (253)
- Perspective/navigation-The Global Positioning System (1993) (222)
- The Global Positioning System (1993) (72)
- Multivibrator Geiger Counter Circuit (1938) (29)
- A Proposed Detector for High Energy Electrons and Mesons (1947) (24)
- A Vacuum Tube Circuit for Scaling Down Counting Rates (1937) (18)
- The Characteristic Curves of Some Variable Stars (1934) (11)
- A New Method for Displacing the Electron Beam in a Synchrotron (1946) (10)
- Some Features of an Electrostatic Generator and Ion Source for High Voltage Research (1939) (6)
- Global Positioning System's Hidden History (1994) (5)
- SCR-584 radar and the Mark 56 naval gun fire control system (1990) (4)
- Cloud Chamber Control Circuit (1939) (3)
- Weapons Systems Management (1959) (3)
- Two‐Pulse Oscillator (1937) (2)
- Guidance and Homing of Missiles and Pilotless Aircraft (1946) (2)
- Accommodation Coefficient and the Fraction of Current Carried by Ions in a Low Voltage Arc (1934) (1)
- Handbook of Industrial Research Management. Carl Heyel, Ed. Reinhold, New York; Chapman and Hall, London, 1959. xvii + 513 pp. $12 (1960) (1)
- Getting a Fix on Origins of GPS (1995) (1)
- Artificial Cosmic Radiation (1948) (0)
- Henri Temianka Correspondence; (getting) (1969) (0)
- The Lining of Metal Capillaries with Glass and the Application to a Capillary Positive Ion Source (1940) (0)
- Global survival: Challenge to engineers (1982) (0)
- VERTICAL SHAPED-BEAM COLLINEAR ARRAY- (1980) (0)
- Ivan A. Getting: Pioneer in the Fields of Radar and GPS (2004) (0)
- Microwave systems-then and now-examples at the 50th reunion of the MIT Radiation Laboratory (1991) (0)
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