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WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Raised in the segregated South, Gladys West was a hidden figure behind GPS

Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”

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Sourcehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2026/01/31/gladys-west-dead-gps-mathematician/
Keywordsgladys-westgpsmathematicstechnologyblack-historysegregated-southnavigationsatelliteshidden-figurescomputer-sciencemathwomen-in-techinnovationdigital-infrastructuregeospatial-technologyaerospaceaviationmathematical-modelingafrican-american-historystem

NYTIMES (Michael S. Rosenwald) - Gladys West, Unsung Figure in Development of GPS, Dies at 95

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

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Sourcehttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/science/gladys-west-dead.html
Keywordsgladys-westgpsmathematicsnavysatellite-technologymappingwomen-in-sciencetech-historynavigationglobal-positioning-systemaerospacemathsatellitesblack-historystem-womenoceanographytechnologyinnovation