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Dr. Gladys Mae West, a pioneering mathematician whose little-recognized work in a Naval lab helped create GPS, died of natural causes Jan. 17 at her daughter’s home in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She ...

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. Dr. Gladys West spent her career in ...

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped to improve billions of lives — and keep us from getting lost.

West was inducted into United States Air Force Hall of Fame in 2018 IanDagnall Computing / Alamy Stock Photo Gladys West, the mathematician whose work led to the creation of GPS, has died at 95 The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Gladys West during her induction into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame, 2018. (Adrian Cadiz/Air Force) ...

DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Dr. Gladys Mae West, a Dinwiddie County woman who laid the groundwork for Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, has died at the age of 95, according to county ...