Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in ...

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

Dr. Gladys West, the trailblazing mathematician who played a pivotal role in birthing Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, passed away on Saturday at the age of 95. Per The Zebra, West was ...

Dr. Gladys West, mathematician and pioneer behind GPS technology, has died at 95, leaving a lasting legacy in science and navigation.

Dr Gladys West, the mathematician whose work laid the foundations for modern GPS and GNSS technology, has died at the age of 95. Her passing on 17 ...

Gladys Mae West died at 95 after pioneering mathematical models critical to GPS technology, used by billions across the ...

Gladys West, a pioneering mathematician whose work helped lay the foundation for the global positioning system (GPS), died at her home in Virginia.

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

Dr. Gladys Mae West, the brilliant mathematician whose quiet, painstaking work laid the foundation for the Global Positioning ...

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.

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Gladys West, a mathematician who was part of the team that developed the global positioning system -- more commonly known as GPS -- died Jan. 17. She was 95. According to a social ...