Ivan Getting

Ivan Getting, who conceived the constellation of navigation satellites ultimately developed as the U.S. Global Positioning System, died Oct. 11 in Coronado, Calif. He was 91. A Rhodes scholar who returned to his alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology to head its radiation lab during World...

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