Gernot M. R. Winkler
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Gernot M. R. Winkler
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Gernot Maria Rudolph Winkler was responsible for the Time Service Department of the United States Naval Observatory (USNO) from 1966 to 1996. Winkler oversaw the introduction of caesium beam-based Coordinated Universal Time based on hyperfine transitions and an internationally transportable "flying clock". This in turn led Winkler to promote precision global positioning techniques (initially by time-reliable surface broadcasts in the LORAN and Omega radio-beacon chains, later by two-way satellit
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American physicist
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2022-04-24T04:56:05Z
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