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## [The Men Behind GPS Just Won a Prestigious Engineering Prize. Not on the Prize List: a Woman](https://time.com/5527654/gps-engineering-queen-elizabeth-prize-women/)  
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* ![Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, announced in London on Feb. 1 2017. L-R: Michael Tompsett \(UK\) Eric Fossum \(USA\) and Nobukazu Teranishi \(Japan\). Along with George Smith \(USA\) they will share the £1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging. Their inventions made the selfie possible](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfea60be42799093e/6988b845fb4eac01d28909c0/qeprize-winners-in-london.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
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