Gernot M. R. Winkler, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1922
Date of Death: 30-Apr-2016
Profession: physicist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Gernot M. R. Winkler
- Gernot Maria Rudolph Winkler PhD (October 17, 1922 – April 30, 2016) 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 satellite time and frequency transfer (TWSTT).
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