A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose algorithms and data-mapping created the functions and laid the groundwork ...
Dr. Gladys West, mathematician and pioneer behind GPS technology, has died at 95, leaving a lasting legacy in science and ...
Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.
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Pioneering mathematician Dr. Gladys West has passed away at the age of 95. Her name may not be familiar to you, but her ...
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West’s genius secured her a position in 1956 at the Naval Support Facility Dahlgren, then called Naval Proving Ground, where ...
Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician whose groundbreaking work made GPS possible, has died at the age of 95.