Roger Easton Dies, Called “Father Of GPS”
Faced with the problem of synchronizing the timing between stations tracking objects orbiting the Earth, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) physicist Roger Easton had the idea of putting highly accurate clocks on satellites that also could be used to determine locations precisely on the ground...
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