Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...
From a childhood and young adulthood in segregation, West excelled academically and eventually helped model the Earth’s shape.
As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated ...
Dr. Gladys Mae West, the brilliant mathematician whose quiet, painstaking work laid the foundation for the Global Positioning ...
Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental 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 ...
Dr Gladys West, the mathematician whose work laid the foundations for modern GPS and GNSS technology, has died at the age of ...
West’s genius secured her a position in 1956 at the Naval Support Facility Dahlgren, then called Naval Proving Ground, where ...
Dr Gladys West, the trailblazing American mathematician whose quiet brilliance underpinned the development of modern Global ...
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