MIT 150: The Top 50

Number 10: Where am I? Like knowing where you’re going? Ivan Getting founded the Aerospace Corp. A 1933 graduate, he designed radar systems at MIT’s Radiation Laboratory during World War II and later worked at Raytheon Co. He was also one of the developers (and major advocates, in the face of Pentagon resistance) of a satellite-based global positioning system for navigation. You know it as GPS.
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Number 10: Where am I?

Like knowing where you’re going? Ivan Getting founded the Aerospace Corp. A 1933 graduate, he designed radar systems at MIT’s Radiation Laboratory during World War II and later worked at Raytheon Co. He was also one of the developers (and major advocates, in the face of Pentagon resistance) of a satellite-based global positioning system for navigation. You know it as GPS.